Monday, July 28, 2008

Step into My Empty Shroud

Step into my blog for story number one from the January 1954 issue of The Beyond #24. We’ll be looking at this Ace issue in its entirety starting today and up until Thursday, and if my most excellent math wizardry has not failed me that means 4 big stories total. And we kick it off with one of the most visually stunning Lou Cameron zombie classics of all time. Seriously, it’s amazing this guy has been so overlooked all these years; someone really needs to think about a nice hardback Cameron Collection for us pre-code freaks.








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13 comments:

  1. silvano7/28/2008

    Great story , I totally agree with you on the artwork ; yhose unbordered panels in pages 2 and 3 are INCREDIBLE !

    Thanks for sharing !

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  2. Unknown7/28/2008

    Now he could get on Hollywood Squares. Well, a few years ago anyway.

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  3. Anonymous7/28/2008

    CAMERON NEVER FAILS TO DELIVER. VERY CHILLING ART, ESPECIALLY THE EYELESS ZOMBIE CHICK. THIS ONE WAS A MIND BLOWER!

    AND CONGRATS ON THE PLUG IN SUPERNATURAL LAW TOO. I DIG THAT COMIC TOO.

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  4. Kitty LeClaw7/28/2008

    Supernatural Law

    You look so dashing in print!

    *swoons*

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  5. Tenebrous Kate7/28/2008

    "Handsome... even if tough!"

    "Stop it, you idiots! You can't nail me into this lousy box!"

    Hmmm... gay necrophilia subtext right on page 1. And then it only gets better, right up through the zombie babe in the graveyard! Doubleplusexcellence on my Monday morning, dear Mr. K.

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  6. Frederick7/28/2008

    Excellent story and chilling artwork!

    I wonder if this was one of the inspirations for the Amicus "Tales From the Crypt" sequence where the man is killed in the accident, then wanders around not knowing he is a hideously rotted walking corpse?

    Another great post.

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  7. Kitty LeClaw7/28/2008

    "strange things happen in the lonely unhallowed ground of the restless dead."

    This passage actually stopped my breath. Delicious!

    And, Maisie's still pretty hot. I'd hit it.

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  8. Anonymous7/28/2008

    pardon my french but this was fan fucking tastic!!!

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  9. Patrick7/28/2008

    Leave it to THOIA to vastly improve the quality of a Monday with a sweet zombie story like this one!

    Lou Cameron's art is excellent- those fight scenes in the graveyard were way too cool!

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  10. Mr. Karswell7/28/2008

    Good to hear everyone dug today's tale, and thanks to everyone who stopped by... more great stories from this classic Ace issue of The Beyond #24 continue tomorrow, and next--- These, My Hands of Doom!

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  11. Anonymous7/29/2008

    Since the 60s I always thought I was Cameron's Number One Fan, but it's great to see so many others appreciating his greatness!
    I wish someone would do a website making all of his stories available, eventually, to download and print in color. It's already too expensive buying those old pre-Code comics.

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  12. Alex Whitington & Rob Turner7/29/2008

    That stuff with Lucky and the corpses is just brilliant.

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  13. Arben10/24/2020

    The first panel on Pg. 6, of him running straight through the zombie with its head separating from its body, is such a great frozen moment suggesting forward motion.

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