Thursday, November 27, 2025

One Man’s Poison

Wait a sec... did some of you think the previous post was the big 'n weird Thanksgiving wind-up? Not blood-drainingly likely! No sir, that was just the 'ol un-appetizer-- because today we have something much more deadlicious planned for you! And guess what? Like the previous two posts, this tantalizing turkey of a tale is also from the December 1953 issue of Mysterious Adventures #17 (you HH Heads might even remember it from when we reprinted it in Haunted Horror #3 way back in 2013!) I really do hope you can stomach this story though, cuz the ending might leave ya feelin' stuffed --for allllll eternity...

Happy Thanksgiving!



1 comment:

Brian Barnes said...

This is a great little story. I love your more methodical and plotting vampires; they have a decent thing going (even though the law was closing on them, they didn't know it) and kept it together only giving into their hunger when it got too much.

And I love how ... loving? ... they are? No sniping, no hate, just having one good meal after another. Kind of a good change from some of the couples we see in these stories!

I'm surprised the embalmed them and didn't do some vampire bit like put silver in the body, but either way, it's a clever ending and I feel sorry for our poor vamps.

Nice good girl art on the splash, too. The art work is gorgeous on this entire story.