"Glamour Ghoul" reveals Vampira, Hollywood's "original Goth"
By Sandra Niemi Feral House: 350 pages, $22. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. You didn’t need to be a pubescent boy (or his father) to fully appreciate the charms of Maila Nurmi — a.k.a. Vampira — when she first appeared on late-night KABC-TV in the spring of 1954. But it didn’t hurt. She was tall, beautiful and frightening and she screamed like a banshee, climaxing each howl with a lewd l...
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