Title: Ugly & Hateful
Product review: The main purpose of this book seems to be author Ray Ferry's hatred of Forry Ackerman, the one time editor of the monster boomer magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland. Ferry dwells on his hate of Ackerman so much that it becomes disturbing and distasteful.Ferry's writing style is over the top in the worst possible way. His other great hate, for Richard Valley of Scarlet Street Magazine, is so extreme as to become cartoonish, and impossible to take seriously. But a quick check of Valley's website, scarletstreet.com, shows Valley expressing the same over the top disdain not only for Ferry but for a dozen other people, most of whom are doing the same thing to Valley!!!This book is a sad and lasting tribute as to what the world of horror fandom has turned into, an endless continuim of hate perpetuated by grown men who should know better.It's an ugly world, this horror fandom, and it makes for ugly, unpleasent reading.
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