In the mid-1950s, a new genre of novelty music emerged that mixed humor and horror. The Monster Music! Suddenly, jukeboxes were filled with songs about Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man, creatures from outer space and a multitude of supernatural terrors. The genre reached its peak in 1962 with Bobby "Boris" Pickett's smash "Monster Mash," but there are many more songs worthy of rediscovery—and Monster Music still lives on today, thanks to the influence of punk pioneers like The Cramps and The Misfits. Here is the complete, untold story of Monster Music—the genre that refused to die!