Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Herman Stein RIP

Herman Stein, a little-known craftsman who, unseen but very much heard, helped terrify the audiences of a spate of classic horror and science-fiction films, died on March 15 at his home in Los Angeles. Mr. Stein, a former staff composer at the Universal studio in Hollywood, was 91. Read the full story here.




Here's a file with six themes that were written or co-written by Mr. Stein --


1. Creature From The Black Lagoon
2. The Incredible Shrinking Man
3. It Came From Outer Space
4. The Mole People
5. Tarantula
6. This Island Earth

Herman Stein (13.41 MB)

2 comments:

Max the drunken severed head said...

Some FANTASTIC CDs of classic horror music can be purchased at
www.mmmrecordings.com.

And you can learn a lot about the composers and the history of classic monster films at the site. It's as lavish as the inserts that come with their CDs.

Max

Erick said...

I don't actually own any CD's from them, but they look really cool. These tracks come from several different sources. But the album covers did come from their website.