Well, everyone knows about the bitter, nasty feud between Ohio Horror Host, A. Ghastlee Ghoul, and Virginia's own Dr. Frank N. Albertstein. This feud is one of legend, it is. 

Many rumors as to why it began are out there on the internet (some involving false claims that Ghastlee locked Albertstein in the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza, others involving claims from Ghastlee that Albertstein locked him in Maya Angelou's North Carolina home), but nothing could be more shocking or scandalous than the truth!

This one goes back almost ten years, when Albertstein was still a student (before he died and gained the ultimate power to summon the Legions of the Dead), and he took up an internship for "The Ghastlee Movie Show" in Dayton, Ohio because it looked like an easy credit. 

As the story goes, Ghastlee was simply ghastly to poor Albertstein, constantly calling him names on the set like "Smart Guy," and "Smarty Guy," or sometimes "Smarty Pants," not to mention "Smarty-Smart Smart Pants Guy," and once (even) "Clortis." 

Finally, Albertstein quit in disgrace, vowing to get even with A. Ghastlee Ghoul. 

He immediately went to a rival Public Access station across the street from the Neon Theatre (a place he often frequented when alone and frustrated), and proposed a show of his own to managment: and that is how the short lived "Son of Ghastlee Ghoul Show" was born!

Naturally, Alberstein claimed SOGGS was an original idea, but right from the first few minutes of the first (and only) episode, it was obvious the show was a rip off of "The Ghastlee Movie Show." Not only did he spank strippers with fish; not only did he have Lesbian Dial-a-date; not only did he have a stuttering interviewer; not only was Robin Quivers doing the news, BUT "Son of Ghastlee" had the nerve to start the show off with the joke, "Have you ever had one of those days when you woke up and realized you were just a 20 year old kid who wore makeup?"

That was the last straw for "A. Ghastlee Ghoul!" He knew Albertstein was no where near 20 years old.

It took the lawyers and psychiatrists all of a morning to sort the mess out, and declare both Ghastlee and Albertstein to be insane, with the only logical solution that Albertstein move to Northern Virginia ("There is only room for three Horror Hosts in Dayton, Ohio, not four!" they said. "Four would be just CRAZY!"), and Ghastlee be moved to two in the morning where no one would have a chance of seeing him. 

The two have never spoken since!

- updated Spring 2002

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