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the circa 1940s Spook Show horror theatrical stage show double-bill release ("The ghosts are meeting at midnite"; "Ghosts Free!"; "Affiliated international order of exalted ghosts"; "Spooks, Thrills"; "Frightday nite Dec. 10 about midnite!"; "Greatest spook gathering in History!!!") of The Bride of Frankenstein, the classic 1935 James Whale Universal monster horror thriller (the second of the Universal Frankenstein movies, and the only example I am aware of where a sequel is clearly superior to the original movie!; this is James Whale's masterpiece, and almost everyone agrees it is among the finest movies ever made, regardless of genre; "The Monster Demands a Mate!") starring Boris Karloff (as the Frankenstein monster), Colin Clive (as Dr. Henry Frankenstein), Valerie Hobson (as the bride of Dr. Frankenstein), O.P. Heggie, Ernest Thesiger (as Dr. Pretorius), John Carradine, Dwight Frye and Elsa Lanchester (in the title role as the bride of the Frankenstein monster) AND Murders in the Rue Morgue, the 1932 Robert Florey Universal crime horror mystery thriller (based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe; set in Paris) starring Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames (billed as "Leon Waycoff"), Bert Roach, and Arlene Francis (best remembered as a panelist from TV's "What's My Line?"). Note that this movie is considered the consolation prize for Florey and Lugosi after they were replaced on "Frankenstein" by Universal. This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1930s ("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). The few "spook show" window cards 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.
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Important Added Info: Note that this window card is one of an amazing group of eight "Spook Show" window cards we are offering this week on eBay (in eight separate eBay auctions). What are "Spook Shows"? These were special shows at movie theaters (sometimes run at Halloween, sometimes on Saturday nights, and sometimes at other times), but almost always these started late at night, after the regular movie theater's program ended, and often ran into the wee hours of the morning! These "Spook Shows" would often combine two, three, or more horror movies (sometimes classics), and would also almost always have live stage acts that promised (on the advertising) outrageous things that could not possibly happen ("See a person decapitated on stage")! Most of these "Spook Shows" seem to date from the 1940s to the 1960s. It seems that few regular posters or lobby cards were ever made for them, but they would almost always create a window card for a specific theater, and then plaster them all around the town the show was about to play in. It seems that the vast majority of these "Spook Show" window cards were thrown away after use, for few survive, and you rarely see more than one from the exact same show. This week we offer eight different examples of these, and each has wonderful graphics and taglines!

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