More heinous hits from
HAUNTED HORROR #16-- in stores NOW! Yep, we thought it's time to show you non-buying comic kooks what you're missing-- in its
ENTIRETY!! We have a few more stories to go, and today's slithery classic originally appeared in the March 1953 issue of
Beware! Terror Tales #6, --it's 10 whoppin' pages of cold blooded action and eeeeeevil!!
***Also, we have our 3 winners in the
HH16 Contest: Grant! Brandiweed! and
JD! Email your addresses to me at
karswell @ hotmail.com (remove the spaces) --yes, you nightmarishly doomed fiends each get a personalized copy of
HH16! Thanks again to everyone that entered!***
Hope that you had a great Birthday weekend...
ReplyDeleteNice story... though the ending we saw coming... knew that he would meet the same fate as his Friend... often used story-line.... but still effective... a lot of Lovecraft's main characters came to an unknown place to discover what had happened to their Friend... and met a similar fate....
and a congrats to the three winners
ReplyDeleteWe always enjoy the many great horror stories that you post , good Mr. Karswell.... another nice pick....
I am overwhelmed with emotion. I had to read it 3 times before catching it! I won!
ReplyDeleteLast time I won a contest's prize was on Mickey Mouse magazine.
I got a bottle of Gold Medal, an Atkinson's Eau de cologne for men. Unfortunately, I was 7 years old.
I've e-mailed my address. I want to thank you, also on behalf of TommyV., the Siam Queen, Carlotta and all my other furry friends.
This is a fun tale. Yes, the ending is pretty obvious, but usually pre-code stories of this length are very padded and this one moves along at a brisk pace. It's well written, and, as before, it's the journey, not the ending.
ReplyDeleteA couple of interesting notes: The artist didn't really know what to do to make the woman from India, it's really just a dark-colored white women.
Also: Everything torture they put him through IS a trick, and he'd have the same problem he did in this one. It is realistic! The bed of nails works by distributing weight, if you aren't still, you're going to get hurt (and badly.) Same thing with the way you fire walk; the right pace protects you and the wrong pace/walk can burn out. Same with sword swallowing! This is the most realistic tale I've ever seen in pre-code ...
... not counting the rope trick or the other world :)
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Lovecraft, this story reminds me of two of his, one a little more than the other. There's IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS, the story he evidently wrote with Harry Houdini.
And those small floating creatures that Alan meets later on look the way I always imagine the invisible creatures in the story FROM BEYOND.
I love the kind of bobble-headed tiny-handed t-rexish mummy host here. He's really off-putting! The art is intermittently dazzling too, but the color here is just glorious! Somebody was really going the extra mile for this storytelling, color-wise. That awesome radiating aura at the bottom of page two and the beggar at the top of three, the snake eye on eight--hell, even the effect of simply leaving Alan blank at the bottom of nine--these are really wonderful and unusual art choices. I always love a good Tutti Frutti color job, but this is undoubtedly one of the very best.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, dreamers! I love reading people's contest entries. Can't wait till the next one.