Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Death Do Us Part
From the January 1954 issue of Haunted Thrills #13, it's your not so typically tragic tale of boy meets girl - girl falls in love with boy - boy feels trapped / creepy - no escape - annnnnd oh wait, did I mention the girl is a baboon?! Excerpt: "Tasha came back and put one paw on my arm! There was something in her eyes I did not like, somehow! It was almost as though I belonged to her now..." *shudders* --now I got the creeps!
people often tell me to "get a life". lol. i daily visit your blog and immensely enjoy ur posts. i read the stories with gusto and terror and who the hell needs a life anyways? lol. your friend,Freddie
ReplyDeleteYou asked for it, Freddie!
ReplyDeleteVery… memorable! How would the Comics Code have affected this a year later?
ReplyDeleteI love how Jack's beard didn't grow.
Whoa. A gender-bent King Kong. Worse, really--I'd far rather run across a silverback gorilla than a baboon in the dark in the wild. I have this irrational feeling I might could reason with most apes. But monkeys, on the other hand, are just kinetic homicidal psychopaths. I cannot imagine the sheer terror of being this in this guy's position. It would be far more terrifying still if Tasha were four stories tall.
ReplyDeleteI suppose Fay Wray is glad that Kong didn't have a foot fetish like Tasha... she may have never walked out of that jungle in one piece.
ReplyDeleteAs is so often the case, another one of your posts reminds me of the work of John Collier:
ReplyDeletehttp://books.google.com/books/about/His_monkey_wife_or_Married_to_a_chimp.html?id=DnxAQ4H511UC
Love Collier but have only read the Fancies and Goodnights collection... this sounds good, thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteThat ... is just a depressing story! Did they have to end with the close-up of the baboon's face and the text indicating it felt betrayed? And the "one feeble paw reaching out to me?"
ReplyDeleteI can't believe they didn't end it by turning over the body and seeing the crushed flowers, candy, and valentines card the baboon was bringing!
Sometimes life gives you some choices you don't want to make.
ReplyDeleteThe alternatives can be much worse than the lousy choices.
That's what this is about. C'est la vie...y pour Tasha, la mord!
>turning over the body and seeing the crushed flowers, candy, and valentines card the baboon was bringing!
ReplyDeleteDear Valentine, wanna monkey around?
>C'est la vie...y pour Tasha, la mord!
I'm just glad Tasha wasn't illustrated with one of these: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Funny-pictures-baboon-butt-heart.jpg
More Haunted Thrills coming up, thanks again for the comments!
Very unusual and atypical story!
ReplyDeleteProves again that anything could happen in pre-code horror.
And isn't that the basic plot of Stephen King's "Misery"?!
>And isn't that the basic plot of Stephen King's "Misery"?!
ReplyDeleteWell if it is, this certainly wouldn't be the first pre code horror tale posted here that we've seen Mr. King borrow from!
Funny how lions go "Eyippeee" when you scare them.
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