From the October 1953 issue of Adventures Into the Unknown #48
Friday, August 10, 2007
Garden of Horror
Here's another good example of Lin Streeter art (it's possible he may have written this story as well), featuring a couple creepy twists and a not so subtle hint of H. P. Lovecraft. I ask you: is there anything more horrifying than plants--- or gardens?! AIEEEEE!!! This post is also in response to the anonymous comment from a few days ago where said person mentioned that some form of vegetation had busted through their window during a storm one night and scared them half to death while they watched a horror movie. Hope this tale "leaves" you as equally unnerved. Get it?
From the October 1953 issue of Adventures Into the Unknown #48
From the October 1953 issue of Adventures Into the Unknown #48
CTHULHU LIVES!!
ReplyDeletewow this is a cool story......the hpl panels are fairly obvious indeed. love how the plant has the ability to make its prey hallucinate and lure them in
ReplyDeletefeed me!!!!!!!!!
Ha ha, a Little Shop of Horros ref now... seems like everything here leads right back to movies.
ReplyDeleteFine by me...
CTHULU FTAGHAN!!! hahahaha,very funny,you see the night i was watching DR. TERRORS HOUSE OF HORRORS segment "Creeping vine",and that tree smahed my window happened only 25 years after i saw my parents gunned down by a mugger who also got my uncle Ben,i had been planning to create a new identity for myself,when suddenly...well,ok i made that up,Pamela Isley took that identity anyways,but hey it made that otherwise laughable segment scary for me(it really happened when i was like,twelve)so lay off,and anyway,i thank god,i wasn't watching DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.
ReplyDeleteI always thought, surprisingly enough, that the 4-part Dr. Who episode starring Tom Baker called Plant of Evil was pretty good and actually really scary... I mean as scary as a carnivorous plant story can be. Another good one was Maneater of Hydra starring Cameron Mitchell.
ReplyDeleteAnd least we forget the Ed Wood penned Revenge of Dr. X! It's about as close as one can get to a live action Forbidden Worlds story.
ReplyDeletePretty good story, genuinely scary premise. Sedentary monsters work best with a lure, as with Weinbaum's Martian Dream Beasts. And the Decorative Wife turned out heroic in the climax.
ReplyDeleteDr Sandor obviously hasn't read horror fiction, or he'd know to avoid the obvious trope: never pleasant strange seeds you find in the abandoned temple in the jungle. Don't do it, man! Not even if you're a biologist, and you're not!
ReplyDeleteDo all these men in those precode comics get issued with a pipe and hat as soon as they've hit puberty?