Ghost Stories by A.L. Furman (ed.)

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

This anthology of scary tales was brought out by Pocket Books as an Archway Paperback. The shown eleventh printing is from July 1977, but chances are this cover design was used already in 1974, see the comments. Edited by Abraham Loew Furman (1902–1972), the book had first been published by Lantern Press in 1961 under the title Teen-Age Ghost Stories.

Bordonaro Vampire might be the first horror typeface with built-in drip effect. Drawn by Lewell Bordonaro, it was issued by Photo-Lettering between their 1965 and 1971 catalogs – and is hence the trailblazer for fonts such as Creeper, Shlop, Blood, and Poster Monster,

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