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Auction History Result 6k0006 SPOOK SHOW 40x60 1950s shudder & shriek on Friday the 13th, creepy horror art, ultra rare! Date Sold 11/12/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded Forty by Sixty Spook Show Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60" [102 x 152 cm]) (Learn More) Spook Show, the circa 1950s live stage horror show ("Horrifying! Blood curdling!"; "It will scare the yell out of you!"; "A monstrous experience!"; "If you enjoy a good scare... don't miss our gasp-provoking Spook Show"; "You'll shiver and shake!"; "Horrendous! Eerie! Terrifying! Ghosts! Monsters! Spooks!"; "Even your goose-bumps will have goose-bumps!"; "You've never been so scared! Shudder and shriek... at our hair raising spook show"). Note that "spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s, with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s. Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). We have auctioned a fair number of different spook show window cards in the past, but we have also seen wonderful 40x60s (one of which has a blank area in the lower center, designed for play dates). The few "spook show" window cards or posters that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning and it has some of the best imagery we have ever seen on a spook show poster! Condition: good to very good. The poster (which was never folded) has a 3" tear near the center of the bottom border with a 2" tear in the top border and a 1" tear in the upper right border, and a tiny bit of paper loss in the bottom border next to the tear. Otherwise it has slight darkening in the outer edges of the blank borders and some faint smudges and scuffs scattered in the poster. However, it has something very unusual about it! The poster was printed with much of what you see on it, but after it was printed, someone added several additions to it (either through overprinting or hand-painting, or a combination of both). These are the bat with the Friday the 13th at top center, the box at middle right with the tagline that begins "On Friday 13", and the pink and white rectangle at bottom left which covers over a creature with the word "spooks" next to it (you can see what was under that box underneath the pink and white area. We imagine that the box in the lower left corner was added so that a specific theater could add play dates, but that was not done with this poster. Obviously the new owner of this poster will have to decide whether they want to leave it as it is, or try to have a restorer do something about the added areas (likely mostly the pink and white box). That will be the choice of the new owner. Please consider all of the above before bidding on this extremely rare and cool spook show poster! Learn More about condition grades 
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