Preface
I was rereading the second edition’s preface a while back as I was getting ready to begin work on the third edition, and it gave me pause for some reflection. Yes, I have been fascinated by the trappings of the entertainment industry since I was a child. But as much as I enjoyed and still enjoy the classic movie monsters, as well as some of the “new” classics—Predator, for example—it didn’t occur to me as a kid, for some reason, that I could make these things for a living. In the back of my mind I knew that someone had to have made the creature suits, and created the iconic makeups, etc., but I don’t remember ever thinking about it, even though I had all of the Aurora plastic model kits—The Mummy, Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula, The
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