Wednesday, August 15, 2018
The Hand of Glory
Had some requests for anything by mad Matt Fox, so today is the day that I oblige, which also just happens to coincide with my own unwitting need to wait a decade between glory hand story posts! So after you read todays terrifically cockamamie tale from the December 1952 issue of Chilling Tales #13, click HERE for another glorious hand that just so happens to be hanging around in the THOIA Archive...
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ReplyDeleteAnd now you know why I only post Glory Hand stories once every 10 years-- arghhh, the madness!!
ReplyDeleteFun art, like a better Fletcher Hanks. The wacky perspective gives everything a nightmare-like reality.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how our original bad guy screwed up using the hand?
I love the look of the ghost, and the lines in the second to last panel. If I ever get a giant safe for my diamond collection, I'm certainly hanging my pathetically small fish trophy over it!
still waiting for the phallic candle jokes to roll in... don't disappoint me, people!!
ReplyDeleteMatt Fox is one of my favourites.
ReplyDeleteOK. Those criminals never held a bank job, but they did hold a hand job. Fun as always Mr. K.
ReplyDeleteThank you
I'm not sure how that gibbet is supposed to operate. I'm no mechanic, but I don't really think it would work the way it has been designed. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. I'll think about it some more.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite bits of gory folklore to relate to my terrified childhood friends! Speaking of glory holes (weren't we?) ummm, have you run across any spooky tales involving an oubliette?
ReplyDeleteGot to love how when the guard orders the criminals to "Raise their hands," the one holding the Hand of Glory raises it up.
ReplyDeleteIf this tale went the classic folklore route, the criminals would have gotten away scott-free because the Hand of Glory could only be put out by milk rather than blood. It's highly unlikely there'd be a glass of milk just sitting around the jewel collector's house to counter the spell.
I also recall a tale in an issue of "Creepy" involving two crooks using a "Hand of Glory" and near the end of the tale, one of the crooks is unable to put the inhabitants of the house to sleep with it because they don't sleep at night. Also, they're vampires.
"It's highly unlikely there'd be a glass of milk just sitting around the jewel collector's house to counter the spell."
DeleteWell, if one of those present is a lactating lady who's got access to a breast pump...
Where’ve you been Mr C? Clearly the rope doesn’t even need to be tied to the haunted gibbet for it to work— sheesh!!! ;)
ReplyDeleteThere might be an oubliette or two in the archive, I’ll leave it to you to venture down into that deep, dank, dark dungeon of no return, Pecor.. haha