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Auction History Result 1a0435 SPOOK SHOW 40x60 1950s shudder & shriek on Friday the 13th, creepy horror art, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/31/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded Forty by Sixty Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60" [102 x 152 cm]) (Learn More) Spook Show, the circa 1950s live stage horror show ("Horrifying! Blood curdling!"; "It will scare the yell out of you!"; "A monstrous experience!"; "If you enjoy a good scare... don't miss our gasp-provoking Spook Show"; "You'll shiver and shake!"; "Horrendous! Eerie! Terrifying! Ghosts! Monsters! Spooks!"; "Even your goose-bumps will have goose-bumps!"; "You've never been so scared! Shudder and shriek... at our hair raising spook show"). Note that "spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s, with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s. Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). We have auctioned a fair number of different spook show window cards in the past, but we have also seen wonderful 40x60s (one of which has a blank area in the lower center, designed for play dates). The few "spook show" window cards or posters that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have only previously auctioned one in all our years of auctioning (which sold for $875), and it has some of the best imagery we have ever seen on a spook show poster! But there is something even better! The one we previously auctioned for $875 had several additions to it (either through overprinting or hand-painting, or a combination of both). These was a bat with the Friday the 13th drawn over the top center, a box drawn at middle right with a tagline that began "On Friday 13", and most importantly, a pink and white rectangle at bottom left which covered over the creature with the word "spooks" next to it (that rectangle was apparently put there so that the theater could add play dates.) While that poster still displayed pretty well, those "additions" to the poster were not intended to be there, and THIS poster has none of those! Also, based on the date written on the cauldron (Friday, July 13), this poster was used either in 1951, 1956 or 1962. Our best guess is 1956 but we cannot be certain. Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded. Its colors are very bright, indicating it was barely displayed. There is a 1" tear in the right blank border and a 1/2" tear in the middle of the top blank border with some slight darkening and a few faint stains in the rest of the blank borders. There are two lines of faint scuffing over the words "SPOOK SHOW". A theater that used this poster wrote in play dates in the blank image area at lower right. There is darkening on the back of the top 10" of the poster (the part that was exposed when the poster was rolled) but fortunately it has almost no effect on the front. Other than the above the poster is in nice condition. It certainly could be displayed and enjoyed as it is or one could choose to have restoration performed. Either way the new owner will have a wonderful poster to disaply on their wall. Learn More about condition grades 
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