NEWS ARCHIVE...

Zacherley Book Woes

As many of you know Zacherley scribe John Skerchock was planning to edit an anthology of horror stories featuring the Cool Ghoul. Unfortunately, John tells us, the book looks like it will not happen. John needed about twenty stories to get a proper page count for the volume but so far only has three. The Deadline is June 30 so, as of this writing, there still may be time. In order for the book to be done in time for Halloween the Deadline cannot be extended.

John is remaining optimistic. If this doesn't work he has other plans for Zacherley's literary future.

Zacherley remembers Mike Thomas

One of Zacherley's long time friends, Mike Thomas, passed away this week. Mike was a regular at the Disc-O-Teen dance show that Zacherley hosted back in the mid-1960s. They have been friends ever since.

Mike was a talented actor and a professional makeup man. He did on target impersonations of Bela Lugosi as Dracula and as Ygor.

In recent years Mike has appeared on stage with Zacherley while dressed as Dracula to perform Joe Girardi's hit BELA LUGOSI.

Mike was a regular fixture at the Chiller Theatre and Monster Bash monster shows. At Chiller he dressed as Dracula, and at Monster Bash he was most often seen as Ygor.

Mike produced and started in a pilot called DEAR YGOR which featured the maligned monster as a horror host of sorts. While the pilot failed to produce a series it was seen by hundreds of monster fans who then became endeared to Michael's talents.

"He was a very dear friend," said Zacherley. "I knew he had health problems and I always worried about him. His spirit and sense of humor were strong. He was a wonderful friend. I will miss him."

ZACHERLEY ON YOU TUBE!

Cortlandt & Dennis put up on "You Tube" two of their Zach clips. View in "HighQuality".

ROCK with the Cool Ghoul!

A movie clip of Zacherley singing 'Monster Mash' at April's 2005 CHILLER!