THE HORRORS OF IT ALL: Ellis Eringer

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Terror of the Deep

We're spotlighting Ellis Eringer again with another wild post today-- and if you thought our last story by him was remarkable (click HERE for it), wait until you see how gruesome this one is! From the November 1953 issue of Mister Mystery #14 ...and with a very special thanks to Brian Hirsch for the scans! (Are there any other pre-code horror tales by Eringer? If so, please let us know, GCD has very little information about him other than his work for Disney.)

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Fate of Alberto

Back in January 2008, I posted two stories from the August 1954 issue of Tales of Horror #12: "Welcome to My School", and "The Pallbearers." Today's fateful post comes from the same issue, and it's a wonderfully wicked tale of black magic and epic DOOM, superbly visualized by Ellis Eringer. I have to say, as good as today's story is, it's nothing compared to the fascinating man who illustrated it, find out more about Ellis "Papa Duke" Eringer and click HERE!

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