THE HORRORS OF IT ALL: Anti-Christmas

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Anti-Christmas

Today marks the start of our Christmas scan posts, and as mentioned in yesterday’s comments section there really wasn’t a whole lot of golden age pre-code horror stories for us to present. So instead, we'll be flashing forward a few decades with a clawful of deliciously morbid scans from Warren’s highly influencial Creepy Magazine. And kicking things off for Double Post Saturday are two excellent Richard Corben classics to get you totally into (or completely out of) the holiday spirit.

From the January 1975 issue of Creepy #68

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: THINK I LIKE THE OTHER XMAS STORY A LITTLE BETTER BUT THIS ONE REALLY NAILS RELIGION TO THE CROSS. IT ALSO PREDATES OMEN 3 BY HALF A DECADE TOO!; 12/22/2007
Unknown said...: Vile.; 12/22/2007
Anonymous said...: HAHAHA!!someone email this to Pat Robertson & Berit Kjos!Stat!.; 12/22/2007
Mr. Karswell said...: >todd said... Vile.

Christ, you act like they were killing babies in this story or somethi... oops.; 12/22/2007

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