Editing Boris Karloff (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:TheRavenlobbycardCrop002.png|right|thumb|Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in ''[[The Raven (1935 film)|The Raven]]'' (1935)]]
During the run of ''Thriller,'' Karloff lent his name and likeness to a [[comic book]] for [[Gold Key Comics]] based upon the series. After ''Thriller'' was cancelled, the comic was retitled ''Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery''. An illustrated likeness of Karloff continued to introduce each issue of this publication for more than a decade after his death (he was not involved however in writing or drawing the stories); the comic book lasted until the early 1980s (a Gold Key comic book series based upon ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' that ran concurrently with Karloff's did the same thing with host [[Rod Serling]]'s likeness after his death). In 2009, [[Dark Horse Comics]] began publishing reprints of ''Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery'' in a hardcover edition.

For his contribution to film and television, Karloff was awarded two stars on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], at [[Vine Street|1737 Vine Street]] for motion pictures, and [[Hollywood Boulevard|6664 Hollywood Boulevard]] for television.<ref name=walk>{{cite book | last=Lindsay | first=Cynthia | title=Dear Boris | location=New York | publisher=Proscenium Publishers | year=1995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCwwSbrQ_y0C | isbn=978-0-87910-076-6 }}</ref> He was featured by the U.S. Postal Service as Frankenstein's Monster and the Mummy in its series "Classic Monster Movie Stamps" issued in September 1997.<ref>{{cite web|title=Classic Monster Movie Stamps |url=http://lonchaney.com/usps-stamps/classic-movie-monster-stamps/ |publisher=United States Postal Service |date=12 January 2008 |access-date=30 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920201509/http://lonchaney.com/usps-stamps/classic-movie-monster-stamps/ |archive-date=20 September 2010 }}</ref> In 1998, an [[English Heritage]] [[blue plaque]] was unveiled in his hometown in London. The British film magazine ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]'' in 2016 ranked Karloff's portrayal as Frankenstein's monster the sixth-greatest horror movie character of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-horror-characters/|title=The 100 best horror movie characters|work=Empire|date=18 October 2016|access-date=2 December 2017|archive-date=3 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203021318/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-horror-characters/|url-status=live}}</ref>

A street called Karloff Way, near [[Rochester, Kent|Rochester]], England, is named in his honour.