Product Description

Ships October 2026.

A collector’s edition, limited to just 15 worldwide

Just fifteen copies of this edition exist anywhere in the world, and once they’re gone, they’re gone for good. The Legacy Edition Hardback of Classic Monsters of the Movies issue #38 transforms our award-winning horror movie magazine into a true collector’s piece: signed by the editors, individually numbered and bound to be treasured for a lifetime. Within its covers you’ll find the same wide-ranging celebration of horror cinema that fills the standard edition, presented in the most luxurious form we produce – a genuine heirloom for the discerning genre aficionado.

REMEMBER – THERE ARE ONLY 15 COPIES OF THIS TITLE IN THE WHOLE WORLD!

Luxury hardback craftsmanship, made to treasure

Presented in oversized A4 format with a striking image-wrap hardback cover and a luxury matt laminated finish, this edition is built to last. Mark Maddox’s atmospheric cover artwork – his vision of The Shining, spanning Kubrick’s 1980 film and Mick Garris’ 1997 miniseries – has room to breathe across the casebound boards, while the inner pages showcase our famed image restoration in full, glorious colour. Every copy is signed by the editors, hand-numbered, and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and an exclusive art print based on the cover design – the finishing touches that make this the centrepiece of any collection.

A whole world of horror between the covers

Between its covers, issue #38 roams right across horror history. The centrepiece is an exclusive encounter between Hollywood screenwriter John Logan (Gladiator, Skyfall, Penny Dreadful, Alien: Covenant) and filmmaker Mick Garris, who reflects on his career and on the way his 1997 television version of The Shining stayed truer to Stephen King’s novel than Kubrick’s more famous take. Nige Burton revisits 1935’s The Raven, the Universal shocker that brought Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff together once again and took considerable liberties with its Edgar Allan Poe namesake, and elsewhere he sits down with former child star Mark Lester to discuss the 1971 chiller Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?. Jamie Jones weighs up horror’s accidental victims – the innocents swept up in monstrous events – while Steve Nallon concludes his meticulous study of the haunted house film. There’s an exclusive and rather poignant feature on Dick Klemensen, whose beloved journal Little Shoppe of Horrors set the gold standard for classic British horror writing from 1972 until its recent, much-mourned conclusion, plus a look at Jason Figgis’ absorbing new documentary on Dracula author Bram Stoker. It amounts to an issue of real breadth, with a good deal more besides waiting to be discovered inside.

Classic Monsters of the Movies is a three-time winner of the Rondo Award for Best Classic Magazine (2023, 2024 and 2025) and a recipient of the 2024 Slaughter Award for Best Magazine – recognition of the care and passion poured into every issue. For the collector who wants that quality in its finest and most enduring form, the issue #38 Legacy Edition Hardback is the ultimate way to own it. But don’t wait: with only 15 in existence, this is one horror film magazine that won’t stay available for long.

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Book specification:

• 84 pages
• Full colour throughout
• Packed with stills, posters, articles and info
• Printed and finished to the highest standard
• Luxury matt laminated cover
• Image wrap hardback cover
• Signed by editors and individually numbered
• Includes FREE exclusive art print based on the cover design
• Includes certificate of authenticity
• Limited to just 15 copies worldwide