Nope, it's not your imagination, --and you're not dreaming it! It's also not a premonition, even though it actually is, but what I mean to say is that we're looking at stories from the unbearably yellowed pages of the January 1954 issue of Weird Mysteries #8-- and yep, here's another one to make you pull your hair outta your head in macabre screaming madness! Hope everyone's having a splendid Friday the 13th too!
Well, if you were paying attention in the intro of the previous post, then you probably saw this one coming next. Even more shocking than the story itself is that somehow, in all these years, I've never posted this original January 1954 issue of the Weird Mysteries #8 version until now (though I did post the very graphic Eerie Pub re-title / remake a few times in the THOIA Archive HERE, and we put it in Haunted Horror #22 too.) So how well does this story hold up today as a reflection of modern society ie: high schooler frustration levels, teen suicide, clueless parenting etc? Spot any Jack Davis swipes?
If you thought our previous post lacked a certain amount of heart, wait'll you get a load of this one! From the January 1954 issue of Weird Mysteries #8, and like most of the stories from this infamous issue --which includes the SOTI classic, "I Killed Mary" --it saw over a half dozen different issue reprints, most notably in the later era Eerie Pubs Shiver Age!
Here's another horrific heartbreaker from the October 1953 issue of Weird Mysteries #7. And like our previous post (which I seem to be saying a lot), this one has also been featured HERE before in the THOIA Archive, but only in a re-titled, black and white reprint form. I think you'll all agree, this story definitely benefits from a bit of the feminine flesh tones and good 'ol spurtin' red stuff. And be sure to fully enjoy that classic Bernard Baily cover illustration too!
If you landed here today hoping to see some spacemen beat off some aliens, then congratulations, --you came to the right place! This is a wild one from the October 1953 issue of Weird Mysteries #7, and if to some of you this all seems a bit familiar, it's because I posted it back in 2012 in B/W-- HERE!
After the previous month of vampires, banshees, and other assorted supernatural fiends, it's time to unleash the tragic tale of an unrelentless, ultra violent, human monster. This shotgun rampage of brutal crime originally saw print in the August 1948 issue of Law Against Crime #3, published by the very short-lived, Essankay, who appears to have only existed for two years, releasing two different series titles for a whoppin' total of only 4 issues. Great L.B. Cole cover on this one, and yep, Wertham hated this issue of course, mentioning it in his infamous Seduction of the Innocent book.
