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Auction History Result 2p059 DR. SATAN'S SHRIEKS IN THE NIGHT SHOW linen Spook Show 40x60 '60s takes place in the audience! Date Sold 11/4/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Forty by Sixty Spook Show Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60") (Learn More) Dr. Satan's Shrikes in the Night Show, the 1960s spook show poster ("New kind of horror show! Unlike anything you have every seen! If you think you have seen horror shows before We Warn You - This is the most!"; "1001 Thrills"; "On Stage"; "Every thrill in the book!"; "Action takes place in the audience! You're actually surrounded by a horror horde of nightmare creatures!"; "All on stage! Right before you eyes!"; "See slave maidens at the mercy of hideous beasts! See Dead Painter Van Gogh materialize"; "The ethereal form of Elvis Presley and the posing apparition of Marilyn Monroe [Re-enacting famous Pin-up pose]"; "Free [in addition to everything else] so that you'll always remember!"; "To boys: Large spirit portrait of Marilyn Monroe [famous pin-up pose]"; "To girls: Large spirit portrait of Elvis Presley"; "Plus Horror Movie!"). The spook shows advertised by this poster were produced by Joe Karston and were performed by magicians that he employed such as Wayne Harris, Kirk Kirkham, Harry Wise, John Daniels and Johnny Cates. 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. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases and small tears on parts of a few foldlines. There were some pinholes and tiny areas of paper loss in small parts of the borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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