Rick Squires
@rickds.bsky.social
Retired academic librarian, social and political progressive, movie buff, grandfather, horror fan, easily distracted.
Those brick features are still there!
April 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Those brick features are still there!
Esoteric action figures.
April 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Esoteric action figures.
This book (and the film based on it) seriously needs to be talked about much more than it seems to be. It's more relevant now than ever.
April 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This book (and the film based on it) seriously needs to be talked about much more than it seems to be. It's more relevant now than ever.
Started watching this 2003 HBO series last night. Takes place in a depression era traveling show. Two episodes in, and it’s pretty good. Anyone else watched it?
March 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Started watching this 2003 HBO series last night. Takes place in a depression era traveling show. Two episodes in, and it’s pretty good. Anyone else watched it?
Cheers to the new year! From John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing, and Vincent Price [House of the Long Shadows, Cannon, 1983]
January 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Cheers to the new year! From John Carradine, Sheila Keith, Peter Cushing, and Vincent Price [House of the Long Shadows, Cannon, 1983]
In celebration of the new BFI Blu-ray release of Vincent Price's thought-to-be-lost 1970's British cooking show.
December 9, 2024 at 1:31 PM
In celebration of the new BFI Blu-ray release of Vincent Price's thought-to-be-lost 1970's British cooking show.
Vincent Price (as Lorenzo de Medici) in a 1970's ad for Tuaca Italian Liqueurs.
December 6, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Vincent Price (as Lorenzo de Medici) in a 1970's ad for Tuaca Italian Liqueurs.
Two extremes of actor Hugh Griffith. As a rural gravedigger in Cry of the Banshee [AIP, 1970]. and as posh Lord Ambrose in Dr. Phibes Rises Again [AIP, 1972].
December 5, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Two extremes of actor Hugh Griffith. As a rural gravedigger in Cry of the Banshee [AIP, 1970]. and as posh Lord Ambrose in Dr. Phibes Rises Again [AIP, 1972].
My Sears Vincent Price Assortment of Chocolates box, purchased in the late 1970's when I worked for the store in Rochester, NY.
December 3, 2024 at 5:34 PM
My Sears Vincent Price Assortment of Chocolates box, purchased in the late 1970's when I worked for the store in Rochester, NY.
Advertising artwork created for The Monster Club (ITC, 1981), featuring Vincent Price and John Carradine.
December 2, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Advertising artwork created for The Monster Club (ITC, 1981), featuring Vincent Price and John Carradine.
Terrific 1988 magazine cover featuring Vincent Price.
November 30, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Terrific 1988 magazine cover featuring Vincent Price.
The comic book adaptation of Twice-Told Tales (United Artists, 1963), featuring Sebastian Cabot and Vincent Price.
November 26, 2024 at 12:11 PM
The comic book adaptation of Twice-Told Tales (United Artists, 1963), featuring Sebastian Cabot and Vincent Price.
Dana Andrews, Thomas Mitchell, and Vincent Price look pretty miserable as they prepare to drown their sorrows in Fritz Lang's 1956 serial killer film While The City Sleeps.
November 25, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Dana Andrews, Thomas Mitchell, and Vincent Price look pretty miserable as they prepare to drown their sorrows in Fritz Lang's 1956 serial killer film While The City Sleeps.
Pictures from an original program for The Cocktail Party, 1951, featuring Vincent Price, Marsha Hunt, Estelle Winwood, Reginald Denny, and Harry Ellerbe, who - 10 years later - would play Bristol the butler in AIP's House of Usher.
November 24, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Pictures from an original program for The Cocktail Party, 1951, featuring Vincent Price, Marsha Hunt, Estelle Winwood, Reginald Denny, and Harry Ellerbe, who - 10 years later - would play Bristol the butler in AIP's House of Usher.
Clara slept in this morning.
November 24, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Clara slept in this morning.
Pressbook cover for The Premature Burial, Roger Corman's only Edgar Allan Poe film that did not star Vincent Price, 1962.
November 23, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Pressbook cover for The Premature Burial, Roger Corman's only Edgar Allan Poe film that did not star Vincent Price, 1962.
My mom 'liberated' this American Dairy Association ad piece from her local grocery store for me back in the 1980's!
November 21, 2024 at 2:51 PM
My mom 'liberated' this American Dairy Association ad piece from her local grocery store for me back in the 1980's!
Vincent Price as the doomed Duke of Clarence in Tower of London (Universal, 1939). First-time costarring with Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone.
November 20, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Vincent Price as the doomed Duke of Clarence in Tower of London (Universal, 1939). First-time costarring with Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone.
How weird is it that the only comic con I've ever been to was one that I organized last month?
November 18, 2024 at 7:54 PM
How weird is it that the only comic con I've ever been to was one that I organized last month?
Is there anything more wonderful than seeing two cousins having an attack of the giggles together?
November 18, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Is there anything more wonderful than seeing two cousins having an attack of the giggles together?
Vincent Price in his natural habitat - an art gallery.
November 17, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Vincent Price in his natural habitat - an art gallery.
The Autumn sun shining on the back wall of the 1811 Streeter’s Inn in the town of Chili, NY today.
November 17, 2024 at 1:10 AM
The Autumn sun shining on the back wall of the 1811 Streeter’s Inn in the town of Chili, NY today.
A travel poster I made using a photo I took of a pub my son and I visited during our trip to London a decade ago.
November 16, 2024 at 3:46 PM
A travel poster I made using a photo I took of a pub my son and I visited during our trip to London a decade ago.
Goodnight from Dr. Anton Phibes and Vulnavia (Vincent Price and Valli Kemp). Dr. Phibes Rises Again! [AIP, 1972]
November 16, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Goodnight from Dr. Anton Phibes and Vulnavia (Vincent Price and Valli Kemp). Dr. Phibes Rises Again! [AIP, 1972]
Today is the birth anniversary of the wonderful Cathie Merchant, best remembered by fans as Vincent Price's mistress in The Haunted Palace [AIP, 1963]. A beautiful, intelligent woman, still terribly missed a decade after her passing.
November 15, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Today is the birth anniversary of the wonderful Cathie Merchant, best remembered by fans as Vincent Price's mistress in The Haunted Palace [AIP, 1963]. A beautiful, intelligent woman, still terribly missed a decade after her passing.