Going way back to the November 1949 issue of Marvel Tales #94 with a slithery 6-page supernatural shocker that'll leave you gasping and grasping for more!
Going way back to the November 1949 issue of Marvel Tales #94 with a slithery 6-page supernatural shocker that'll leave you gasping and grasping for more!
William Castle must have read this one before doing House on Haunted Hill (I jest but there is a similar and eerily effective rope trick in that one.)
ReplyDeleteI like how they don't jump to any conclusions. The possessed rope coming out of the chimney where they skeleton fell out? It *might* be the executioner but we don't want to be too hasty!
I love this one. The living rope is a great gag and works really well as a hard to destroy and threatening monster. The artwork is a little pedestrian but it works. It's a clever little horror story!
The caretaker is a pretty good red herring.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me slightly of a dark comedy THRILLER episode called "Masquerade," where Tom Poston and Elizabeth Montgomery are a stranded couple, and John Carradine is a spooky home owner who's partly a red herring and partly not one.
Even without that story to compare it to, the caretaker in this one gives a real John Carradine vibe.
Man I love the panel where Duncan punches the spectral rope. That's chutzpah!
ReplyDeleteHow scared of the rain must a couple be to prefer sitting through the night with a new corpse in an old dark house haunted by a murderous hangman's noose? Yeah, I'll be waiting in the car.
I love these ancient Timely horror comics.