Skulls of Doom

The bad news is it's Monday mourn… but the good news is you’re about to get 3 days of vicious Voodoo madness from Farrell Publications! Fans of Pappy’s Golden Age Comics blog might remember this crazy story that he posted back in October HERE. His version is the black and white reprint from the March 1969 issue of Eerie Publication’s Terror Tales #7. It also features some slight, additional gore and other art adjustment / upgrades.

The original color version presented here today comes from the November 1953 issue of Voodoo #12.

TOMORROW: Time for some head…

The Horrors of the 13th Stroke

We’re terrifying you to death all this weekend with stories about creepy clocks! That’s right, will you ever be able to tell time the same again? Only time will, um, tell...

From the January 1953 issue of Beware! Terror Tales #5

ALL THIS WEEK AT THOIA: Zombie head games, acid in the face, satanic difficulites, and more!

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Vintage Ad that has nothing to do with clocks

The Devil’s Clock

For the rest of the month let's just ditch the full issue presentation theme, I think we kicked off January AND 2009 big enough at this point, don’t you? But this weekend there is still a theme, and that theme is--- clocks! Evil clocks. Haunted clocks. Clocks of Doom! If you keep saying the word “clocks” enough it totally sounds like the least scary thing on the planet. That is of course unless it’s --- The Devil’s Clock! AIEEEE!!
From the November 1952 issue of Tales of Horror #3

And for more pre-code terror from Brown & Gantz, check out the expertly illustrated, but superbly stupid Purple Claw adventures located in the THOIA Archives HERE!

TOMORROW: The ULTIMATE Clock in Horror!

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If somehow a clock is not terrifying enough for you, then how about Junior's Television? Apparently it works just fine without being plugged in (look closely.) And dear lard, please tell me that's not supposed to be a projection of Popeye?!!

Even scarier is an ad promising you "popularity" by simply sticking a harmonica into your pie hole for 15 minutes. I suppose if that actually worked you really would have to be marvelous...

Devil Will Get You if You Don’t Watch Out

Bernard Baily sells his soul for rock ‘n roll with today’s Time Machine Flash Forward tale, from the March 1974 issue of Witching Hour #40. Plus, the usual assortment of 70’s ads as well as a silly one-pager gag from the always great Manak.

THIS WEEKEND: Time for Death!

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Vintage Ads

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Abel's Fables by Manak

The Pit and the Pendulum

We wrap up our Poe Fest this week with the second THOIA appearance of The Pit and Pendulum (the first time was last May with the Beware #10 version HERE.) Today’s story though comes from the Fall 1952 issue of Nightmare #2, and is illustrated by the truly great Everett Raymond Kinstler. (NOTE: take a look at page two, panel three--- it's Vincent Price appearing a full 9 years BEFORE starring in Roger Corman's film of the same name!)

I hope everyone enjoyed this admiration filled glimpse into the mind of the original Master of Horror, Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Happy 200th Birthday Day old boy!

And once again I want to thank Todd Hunter for all the great Classics Illustrated issue scans this week... and another round of applause to my gracious fellow bloggers: Admiral David Tackett at Quasar Dragon, Kitty LeClaw at Killer Kittens from Beyond the Grave, and Sir Chuck Wells at The Comic Book Catacombs for hosting THOIA story submissions for our Poe Week (plus an additional set of Devil Horns to Kitty for her sweet as Hell tribute to THOIA yesterday too.)

And before I forget, there's a couple pulse-pounding versions of The Tell-Tale Heart in the THOIA Archives for you to also check-out. Click HERE!

TOMORROW: The 70’s Time Machine Returns!

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Edgar Allan Poe Stamp: for Now, Not Nevermore

Poe gets commemorated on his 200th Birthday with a stamp! Click HERE for more info and start putting a little EAP on your mournful death notes!

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Tagged!

Amazing Alan over at the endlessly fun Robot Nine blog “tagged” me recently, and the game goes down like this: Enter your hard drive - go to the fourth folder - pull out the fourth image file - post it. Lucky for me the fourth folder on my C Drive is reserved for my client Big Dumb Rock Productions who I create concert posters for occasionally, and the fourth file was a 45 Grave design I created for them a few years back (featuring art I lifted from the cover of the July 1952 issue of Black Cat Mystery #37!)

FYI: I’ve been thinking about printing these up and selling them, if anyone is interested just drop me a line at karswell@hotmail.com for info.

And as most tagging games require, I must now pick 4 lucky souls to enter their own hard drives and go fourth folder - fourth file - post image. But! I hate having to choose (and I love breaking rules) so I leave it wide open for anyone who wants to play… just be sure to drop me and Alan a line so we can check it out on your own blog. Have fun!

The Fall of the House of Usher

Well, my inability to add numbers correctly has suddenly come to light (again), and it turns out that YESTERDAY was THOIA’s 1000th post. Guess I need a vacation or something. But no biggie really, maybe I’ll get it right on the 2000th post... and instead of dwelling on it, how about another Poe tale?

From the melancholy August 1947 issue of Classics Illustrated #40

TOMORROW: Our final day of Edgar Allan Poe classics!