Unfortunately, there occurred other changes that reference real horrors as this issue was also the first post-9/11 SS publication. To put it in Richard Valley's words, "...the world had changed, horribly so, and things that were vital on September 10 had lost meaning by the night of the following day."
My belief is that day was probably the worst in our country's history; a turning point towards the inevitable, and when America was effectively ended with four words: "Too big to fail."
One of the reasons 9/11 hit so hard for the Scarlet Street family was that they were basically grounded right next to where it happened, being based in New Jersey. "It's a 20 minute drive to the George Washington Bridge," said Richard. "It's all too close, and I can't even imagine how people right in Manhattan--or in Washington D.C.--are managing to cope."
Scarlet Street's own Kevin Shinnick was scheduled to be at a business meeting in one of the Towers at 8:30am, but it had been rescheduled to 10:30....leaving Kevin with a narrow escape for his life.
Indeed, it's been a strange world since that time, but really the world has always been a place where evil lurks along with the good, it's just this day it very much reared its ugly head. Although, I speak of it as an end, there are also always new beginnings, and with that, with all respect to Richard Valley's memory, I leave you with his words once more: "We have been told since yesterday morning that life as we knew it is forever changed, and in some respects that's certainly true. But if we believe that to the point of abandoning all that is precious to us, then we will have given up on life entirely. Let's hold on to the joys in our lives, as dearly as we hold on to those we love."
May we enjoy the beginning of the Holiday Season, and don't forget, we still have enough Scarlet Street to do it all over again, one more time, in 2019! Here's to an exciting future!
*"The Menace" [1932] with H.B. Warner, Bette Davis and Walter Byron
*"The Menace" [1932]
*"Behind The Mask" [1932] with Jack Holt, Constance Cummings and Boris Karloff
*Artwork for "Behind The Mask" [1932]
*Bela Lugosi brings Columbia into the world of terror big-time in "Night of Terror" [1933] with Sally Blane, Wallace Ford and Tully Marshall
*"Night of Terror" [1933] with Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, Wallace Ford and Tully Marshall
*"Night of Terror" [1933]
*"The Ninth Guest" [1934] with Donald Cook and Genevieve Tobin
*"The Ninth Guest" [1934] with Donald Cook and Genevieve Tobin
*"Black Moon" [1934] with Jack Holt and Fay Wray
*"Black Moon" [1934] with Fay Wray and Jack Holt
*"The Black Room" [1935] with Boris Karloff and Marian Marsh
*"The Black Room" [1935] with Boris Karloff and Marian Marsh
*"The Black Room" [1935] with Boris Karloff
*"The Man Who Lived Twice" [1936] with Ralph Bellamy and Marian Marsh
*Wade Nichols, aka Dennis Parker, born Dennis Posa (above & below) is seduced into eternal life without aging by Georgina Spelvin (center & below) in the pornographic film "Take Off" [1978], which was a 'take off' of the Dorian Gray story and quite a few others!
*Eric Edwards (above) and Leslie Bovee (center) get it on-and get off together at the beginning of this pornographic 'spin' of the Dorian Gray tale, "Take Off" [1978]
*Belinda Bauer (above and below) is 'mentored' into a life without aging as a female Dorian by Anthony Perkins (center) in "The Sins of Dorian Gray" [1982].
*Belinda Bauer (below...well, what's left of her anyway) first drives her lover, Joseph Bottoms (above) to suicide, then murders her only advocate, Olga Karlatos (center) before reaching her own horrible end in "The Sins of Dorian Gray" [1982]
*Dick Smith at work.
*Dick Smith at work.
*Malcolm McDowall (above) traps Ethan Erickson (center) into an eternal life of misery as the 'new' "Dorian" (as it was known in Canada) and released in the USA as "Pact With The Devil" made in 2002 but not released until 2004.
*"Dorian Gray Im Spiegel Der Boulevardpresse (The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press)" [1984]
*Delphine Seyrig is Dr. Mabuse in "Dorian Gray Im Spiegel Der Boulevardpresse (The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press)" [1984]
*"Dorian Gray Im Spiegel Der Boulevardpresse (The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press)" [1984]
*"The Vengeance of She" [1965] with Olinka Berova and John Richardson.
*"The Vengeance of She" [1965] with Olinka Berova and John Richardson.
*"The Vengeance of She" [1965] with Olinka Berova and John Richardson.
*"The Vengeance of She" [1965] with Olinka Berova and John Richardson and 'friends' (below).
*"She" [1982] with Sandahl Bergman.
*Sandahl Bergman, the "She" of the early 1980s!
*"She" [1982]. After an encounter with a chainsaw gang, friends David Goss and Harrison Muller (above) get taken in by a seemingly harmless tribe (center) but then find the need to escape the fate of their previous visitors as well (below)!
*"She" [1982] Quin Kessler 'takes one for the team' (above) while Sandahl Bergman, Harrison Muller & David Goss (continuing their Bro-mance, center) go to battle. In the end, poor David Goss doesn't get the girl (below).
*"The Man Who Lived Twice" [1936] with Ralph Bellamy, Marian Marsh and Isabel Jewell (shown here bottom photo).
*Released as "Dorian" [2004] in Canada and "Pact With The Devil" in the USA, Ethan Erickson finds he is no match for Malcolm McDowell in his first starring role.
*Dick Smith works on Marlon Brando (center) and he is shown here with next generation make-up maestro, Rick Baker (below).
*Veruschka von Lehndorff, who played Dorian Gray in "Dorian Gray Im Spiegel Der Boulevardpresse (The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press)" [1984]
*"Dorian Gray Im Spiegel Der Boulevardpresse (The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press)" [1984]
*Ulrike Ottinger, the filmmaker who gave us "Dorian Gray Im Spiegel Der Boulevardpresse (The Image of Dorian Gray in the Yellow Press)" [1984] - shown with Veruschka von Lehndorff who played Dorian Gray (below).
* Supplemental images are noted with an (*) asterisk. My intention is to only enhance the reading experience and not take away from the original publication.