Forrest J Ackerman, who influenced a generation of young horror-movie fans with Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and spent a lifetime amassing what has been called the world’s largest ...

See About archive blog posts. The late Forrest J. Ackerman dedicated his life to amassing what many consider to have been the world’s largest personal collection of science fiction, fantasy and ...

Next up was another panel devoted to 50 years of FM, and there - holding court in front of the microphone - was none other than the man, myth, and legend rolled into one: & Forrest J Ackerman himself.

Once, though, fantasy magazines and no-budget horror movies had just one prominent proselytizer: Forry Ackerman, who died in Los Angeles at 92. For more than 80 years, from the day in 1926 when he ...

Forrest J Ackerman, the magazine editor who discovered science fiction author Ray Bradbury and is credited with coining the term "sci-fi," died Thursday at his Los Angeles home. He was 92.