The Looks Unfamiliar Horror Bag: Steve Berry – Frankenstein’s Monster Ice Lolly Face Disappears When Ice Lolly Removed From Packet

Smiths Horror Bags - listen to Steve Berry and Tim Worthington talking about them in Looks Unfamiliar.

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to.

Joining Tim this time for a suitably spooky chat is writer Steve Berry, who’s hoping to dazzle the crowds at the village hall Halloween Disco with his knowledge of Words And Pictures’ Witches Of Halloween, Smiths Horror Bags and Vincent Price’s ill-fittingly horror-themed adverts for MB Games. Along the way we’ll be questioning Richard Herring’s historical sources for the story of St. Ian, asking Wittgenstein if he’d like a Count Dracula’s Deadly Secret, pitching a combined biography of Henry Woolf, Wolfe Morris and Gabriel Woolf, estimating how many copies of MB Games’ Voice Of The Mummy were piled up at Neverland Ranch and trying to work out exactly where a ‘VHS Fonz’ fits in to the Classic Horror tradition.

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MB Games Hangman - listen to Steve Berry and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

Words And Pictures: Witches Of Halloween (BBC1, 1975) - listen to Steve Berry and Tim Worthington talking about it in Looks Unfamiliar.

About Steve

Steve Berry is the author of a number of books including TV Cream Toys, The Great British Tuck Shop and A History Of Sweets In 50 Wrappers, which you can find on Amazon here. You can find Steve’s t-shirt store here and follow him on Bluesky at @unloveablesteve.bsky.social.

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If you enjoyed this, then you’ll enjoy Tim’s book Can’t Help Thinking About Me, a collection of columns and features with a personal twist. Can’t Help Thinking About Me is available in paperback here or from the Kindle Store here.

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Further Listening

You can also find Steve on Looks Unfamiliar talking about Single Versions Of Pop Songs That Never Get Played Any More, Elastoplast Heroes, United States Of Television, Skoal Bandits, Starblazer Electronic Space Command Belt and Morning Has Broken here.

Steve also appears in The Best Of Looks Unfamiliar alongside Joanne Sheppard on Fax, Mitch Benn on The Deceivers, Mark Thompson on Your Party Needs You, Donna Rees on The Monty Python Matching Tie And Handkerchief, Georgy Jamieson on Go For Broke!, Tim Worthington on Outa-Space!, Ben Baker on Roland’s Yuletide Binge and Mic Wright on Solitary Fitness, which you can find here.