Crestwood House Monster Books: I Need These!

Back in my elementary school days, the Crestwood House Monster books were the end all be all of horror. It was an astoundingly thorough collection (nearly twenty individual volumes) covering all of the most iconic film monsters. I'm sure I checked each and every one of them out multiple times during our once a week trips to the school library.

It was kinda cool. They were always way back in the farthest corner of the library. Lined up in a neat little row of tattered orange spines if you were lucky. If you weren't, there'd just be one or two loose volumes. Then, you were all like, "No! Please... don't let it be... Crap! 'The Deadly Mantis' is the only one left!" Didn't really matter. You knew you were taking it anyway.

Damn. Gotta get my hands on a set of these. Check out Paxton Holley's Flickr set for a stroll down memory lane.