When I were a Vlad

I'm still chuffed with my autographed Cape Kennedy Box. They're a funny thing, autographs. Somehow they hold a deep fascination as though the writing of a name can somehow capture the essence of the person. Probably the most impressive group of signatures I've ever seen was Forrest J. Ackerman's collection on his personal First Edition copy of the novel Dracula, which you can see in all it's dark glory here [Forry created the iconic magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland and singlehandly kicked-off the Sixties monster craze].

Amazingly Forry managed to get ALL the Dracula's: Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Paul Naschy and most fantastic of all, Bram Stoker himself from 1900. There's only Vlad The Impaler missing! The book was auctioned a couple of years ago as part of the late great Forry's grand sale to fight a court case. Such a shame that probably the greatest monster and sci fi collection collection, housed in his Ackermansion, got broken up. I'm off for a bite!

Anyone else got any autographs?