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Auction History Result #115 SPOOK SHOW standee '50s horror Date Sold 10/30/2001Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theater Used Standee (Measures 14" x 20 1/2") (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. Condition: fine. There are glue stains in the top blank border and slight discoloration in the other blank borders. There are creases in the blank borders. The "PLEASE TAKE ONE" display piece has a pair of staple holes above "PLEASE". There are a few tiny tears Learn More about condition grades 
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