The Throwback!

Like our previous post, here's another weird Fiction House entry, this time from the Winter 1953 issue of Ghost Comics #9, and with art by Bill Discount. It's a kooky circus freak tale that quickly devolves into a time-warped tale of prehistoric cavemen and cavewomen gone wild! Prepare yourself for--

There's No Pleasin' Some Gals!

As many of you already know, a sense of hellacious humor was just as much a key at precode Atlas as their marvelous artistry and horror themes. And a tried and true approach to their mixture: characters that are so obnoxiously exaggerated, you can't help but applaud their inevitable rude awakening and / or end demise. A good example of this can be found in the October 1953 issue of Mystery Tales #16.











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The Monsters Strike!

Cave men apparently existed in the days of the dragonsaurs in this monstrously fun tale from the July 1952 issue of Adventures into the Unknown! #33, art credited to Charlie Sultan who did a ton of top notch artwork for ACG... post rounded out with a good 'n ghostly "true" one-page filler too! Boo!

Operation Horror!

As Ted Cruz announces he's running for president, THOIA launches a more sensible, though no less equally neanderthal-headed operation of horror, --it's the final freak-out from the Feb-March 1952 issue of Eerie #5! This entire issue is now posted here, check the archives for "Master of the Cats", The Knife of Jack the Ripper", and our last post "I Painted Only Terror."

Prehistoric Beast

The third petrifying entry from the April 1954 issue of Web of Evil #13, pencils by Louis Ravielli, and as you have probably guessed by now I am indeed posting the entire issue-- see the final cover story in our next post which kicks off a chilly December-load of shivery spine tinglers. See ya in a few!

Hammer of Evil

As I mentioned in the comments yesterday, this is my personal favorite story from Voodoo #15, and without going much into the details of why, you just need to read it, like immediately, and all should be clear anyway. I do have a feeling the doods are going to enjoy this one more than the dames though, or maybe not... a few of you out there continue to surprise the hell out of me.

TOMORROW: Dead Man’s Pajamas! Ooooo!

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When All Eyes & Ears photographer Dania Hurley recently submitted this pleasantly candid cemetery snapshot to us (while wearing her new THOIA tee shirt too!), it was brought to the attention of one of my top Science Sorcerers. He immediately felt “something odd” about the photo as did I, and wasted no time in running it through a rigorous series of “Supernatural Revelation Testing” in our own black magikally enhanced THOIA Photo Lab. What we found may astound and terrify you (as it did to Dania.)

Moral: STAY AWAY FROM THIS HORROR INFESTED CEMETERY!
EPILOGE: Ms. Hurley now rests quietly in an Ohio State Sanitarium. Please forward all cards and well wishes c/o her fabulous AEAE blog and retrOhio flickr photo pages. Get well girl!

Let the Past Lie Buried!

This may be my favorite post of the month so far… something about the central idea here is very cool and clever to me, and those of you who are Hammer fans may be somwhat reminded of certain scenes and implications expressed / hinted at in their brilliant Quatermass and the Pit film while you read this too. Enjoy!

From the April 1953 issue of This Magazine is Haunted #10