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Horror Hosts: Vampires & Ghoulish Female…...These Are the Ladies Your Mother Warned You About!

Chris Nersinger
6 min readOct 18, 2024
Above- cover art for McFarland’s release featuring the first female horror host-Vampira. She was a big hit in the ’50s Television. Photo by Monsters in Motrion/www.monstersinmotion.com

“Twa’s beauty that killed the beast.” Horror hostesses with their charming smile all along hiding a set of fangs, a boiling cauldron and a potion or two all with the intent of reeling us mere mortals into a macabre tale that is sure to chills us to the bones……stealing an hour or two of our precious life….

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Welcome to another edition of the Book Corner courtesy of Reviews on the Edge and there is no critiques except only to say any and all that I write about is deserving of more than a once over-( if you can’t say something nice-then don’t say nothing at all ..as quoted by Thumper aka Bambi) and this case we are talking several books including some recently published by one of my favorites companies McFarland Books and when I need a reference book there is no other that I can think of.

In keeping with the Halloween spirit, I wanted to share this magical book with all of you.

Vampira and Her Daughters-Women Horror Hosts from the 1950’s into the Internet Era. Written by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter pgs. 172, fully…

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Chris Nersinger
Chris Nersinger

Written by Chris Nersinger

Was born the year that DR. NO (1962) premiered. His first movie, age 3 -MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS (1958). A writer of all things Pop Culture. Movies, Music, TV. ...

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