The Murder Pool

I mentioned filmmaker William Castle in the last THOIA post "Monsters for Rent" because of the gimmick angle to that story (we all know Castle was The Master at goofishly grand gimmicktry), and I'm going to mention him again today too because of the House on Haunted Hill-esque, skeleton-producing, acid pool angle to today's lurid Iger Shop classic. Castle could have made a real doozy out of this one--- Filmed in Dissolvo-Vision!©

From the Aug-Sept. 1954 issue of Strange Fantasy #13.

Pool of the Skeletons

From the December 1953 issue of Tales of Horror #8, (the same issue that brought us yesterday’s Big Snake classic), comes a tale so sweet, so cuddly, it’s sure to warm the cockles of your heart with overflowing waves of joy and…

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The Thing in the Pool

Here’s a nice looking Myron Fass classic with a great cheesecake splash and a weirdly beaked, tentacled creature out for blood! It’s a slick terror tale, though it sure takes the long way around to telling a simple revenge story (10 pages?!) Still a winner though.

From the September 1952 issue of Tales of Horror #2