Interview with Bobby Gammonster by David Kempf
1. Tell us how you became interested in all things horror? When I was six years old in 1966, I came across a magazine with Frankenstein's Monster on the front. Having not started school yet, I could not read the magazine, but the pictures of all the monsters inside thrilled me and sparked something in me. I later learned that the magazine was Famous Monsters of Filmland, issue 56. Before that, at age four, I got a small tin lithograph haunted house bank with a glow-in-the-dark hand that pulled a coin inside when placed on the front porch step, along with a Munsters paper doll set for Christmas. That started my love of horror. 2. Do you have a favourite horror host you grew up watching? We did not have a horror-hosted TV show in our area when I was growing up. I did see an article in one of my Famous Monsters magazines about the original "Dr. Paul Bearer," played by Dick Bennick. At the time, I did not realise that he was on TV. I thought since he was in the magazine, he...