{"id":16109,"date":"2008-12-05T20:34:43","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T01:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16109"},"modified":"2014-10-15T10:20:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:20:26","slug":"forrest-j-ackerman-1916-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/05\/forrest-j-ackerman-1916-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest J. Ackerman 1916-2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first horrific dreams I ever had which were inspired by a book or magazine as opposed to arising from the depths of my own depraved brain came about when I was nine due to the image on the cover of this July 1964 issue of <i>Famous Monsters of Filmland<\/i>, edited by Forrest J Ackerman.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FamousMonsters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FamousMonsters-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"FamousMonsters\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FamousMonsters-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/FamousMonsters.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a result, my parents forbade me from reading it or any other monster  magazines for at least a week, hoping to protect my impressionable mind.  <\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t keep away, though (sorry, Mom and Dad!), and snuck back to them as often as I could.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And then there was this other cover, featuring a character Forrie created, which caused *ahem* entirely different sorts of dreams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VampirellaCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VampirellaCover-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"VampirellaCover\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VampirellaCover-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VampirellaCover.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Farewell, Forrie, and thanks for all the nightmares &#8230; and those dreams as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first horrific dreams I ever had which were inspired by a book or magazine as opposed to arising from the depths of my own depraved brain came about when I was nine due to the image on the cover of this July 1964 issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland, edited by Forrest J Ackerman. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,544,85,13],"class_list":["post-16109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-forrest-j-ackerman","tag-obituaries","tag-old-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16112,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16109\/revisions\/16112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}