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  And finally, much love to my beautiful wife, Nancy, without whom none of this matters. You’re the woman of my dreams.

  CIRCA SUMMER 1954 OR ’55, Robbie “The Fish” Englund in the family pool.

  SUMMER 1966, HOLLYWOOD: Starring in The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory, costarring Lindsay Doran (producer, Sense and Sensibility, Stranger than Fiction).

  BEEBO CROZIER AND Elegant John: Taking a break between scenes with the great Henry Fonda on Last of the Cowboys, somewhere outside Palm Springs, 1976.

  SPONGEBOB SHREDDING IN the shadow of Bette Davis’s house, Laguna Beach, 1998.

  NANCY AND I enjoying the sunset in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on our wedding day, October, 1988.

  WILLIE IN THE paraffin wax and halved grape “frozen blisters” makeup in V with Jason Bernard, 1983. (V © WARNER BROS. INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

  LADY FROM SHANGHAI meets Silence of the Lambs: Taking a break with Ted Levine on the set of Stephen King’s The Mangler in South Africa, 1994.

  GETTING MY FREDDY makeup applied by Oscar winner and fellow mob survivor Howard Berger, 1988. (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4: THE DREAM MASTER © THE FOURTH NEW LINE–HERON VENTURE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

  IN THE SACK with Johnny Depp, 1984. (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET © THE ELM STREET VENTURE. LICENSED BY: NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

  HERE WE GO again! Nancy’s shot of the first makeup test for Freddy vs. Jason, 2003.

  NOT ANOTHER FIRE stunt?!?! With Ken Kerzinger in Freddy vs. Jason, 2003. (FREDDY VS. JASON © NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

  KIDDING AROUND ON the set of Jamie Foxx, 1999. (THE JAMIE FOXX SHOW © WARNER BROS. TELEVISION, A DIVISION OF TIME WARNER ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, L.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

  THIS GUY HAD my signature tattooed shortly after I signed his leg. Wish I had better handwriting! Check out RobertEnglund. com for a gallery of Freddy “tats.” (PHOTO OF ROBERT WITH TOM ALBRIGHT COURTESY OF CORRINE ALBRIGHT.)

  WATCHING VIDEO REPLAY with the Sicilian geniuses, Cipri and Maresco, 2002.

  THE DEVIL MADE me do it! As Lucifer making a Faustian bargain with Al Bundy (Ed O’Neill), 1997. (MARRIED WITH CHILDREN COURTESY SONY PICTURES TELEVISION.)