Mandy Morgue from Chunky, MS is our winner of the
IDW / Yoe Books Chilling Archives of Horror Comics Halloween Give-Away! Congratulations,
Mandy, we've just embalmed you alive with a complete set of
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THE HORRORS OF IT ALL!
THOIA just wouldn't be complete without a pre code horror tale... see, my son decided at the last minute to change his
Mine Craft halloween costume into a terrifying ventriloquist dummy (thanks
Goosebumps Slappy!), so here we have the perfect tale to send shivers up your spine, just like a cold, manipulative hand entering you from behind to... uhhh... man, let's just read the story!
From the May 1952 issue of
Adventures into Weird Worlds #6.
SON OF KARSWELL
AIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
13 comments:
Looks like they beat Alfred Hitchcock to the story "The Glass Eye" by about 5 years...
Congrats to the winner & Hope you have a Happy Hallowe'en!
cool, I'm happy for Mandy Morgue. with a name that great she deserves to win.
You and yours have a very happy Halloween good Sir Karswell...
from the "Crypt"...
Somebody in a position of power needs get Marvel to put these in a Masterwork edition.
One thing I liked about Atlas was they knew not to stretch out a story with a concept like this too much. There's no need for sub-plots, this one is all ending. Keep it short and punchy.
Happy Halloween, everybody, congrats Mandy, and Kars, your son is really taking off after his father! I don't know if that's a good or bad thing!
After reading this shortie, I'm left thinking that the ugly bat-eared midget got off lucky. That chick was clearly insane and would have destroyed his life. Who falls madly in love with someone only based picture on a show poster having never seen or heard them in person? And then pursues them from city to city, completely obsessed? Even though that person runs from them when they try and get intimate and, damn, wears a horrific dummy on his hand 24/7 and speaks with it? Clearly only a lunatic would do that.
A really twisted twist ending would be if at the end of the story a door opened up in the lady's middle and out popped a female version of the puppet master.
"I knew who and what you were, that's why I wouldn't leave you" would be her reply.
And they both lived hideously ever after...
I didn't know this story came BEFORE "The Glass Eye," as brandiweed says.
Of course, there are some big differences. The Glass Eye causes you to have a lot of sympathy for the "real ventriloquist" at the end, and this version leaves that out.
Also, it only shows both characters sitting in the dressing room and on stage. This version kind of glosses over how "Ventro" is able to get to the restaurant, and run away from the table.
Indeed, many pre code comic stories are based on weird tales from the pulps and early fiction era, same as many great tv episodes of the 50's and 60's
So I am still pretty stoked about this and thank you to everyone, I just realized there are comments....yeah aparently me visiting this blog often didn't make me that smart hahaha!
I hope everybody had an amazing Halloween!
Stay Creepy,
Mandy Morgue
Congrats again, Mandy... I have word from IDW that your books shipped yesterday so keep an eye out for them! Drop me and line and let me know when you get them!
--K
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