HALLOWEEN GIVE-AWAY WINNER! + Wooden Man

Mandy Morgue from Chunky, MS is our winner of the IDW / Yoe Books Chilling Archives of Horror Comics Halloween Give-Away! Congratulations, Mandy, we've just embalmed you alive with a complete set of Chilling Archive hardcovers: Dick Briefer's Frankenstein, Bob Powell's Terror, Zombies, Jack Cole's Deadly Horror, and the soon to be released Haunted Horror 1-3 Collection! To everyone else that entered-- remember to check the other contest sponsors to see if you too have won, so start clicking HERE: IDW PUBLISHING, YOE BOOKS, All Things Ger, and Four Color Shadows! Don't see your name? Don't fret! We have lots more contests on the haunted horizon, and / or of course you can always order these creeptacular collections online, or at your local comics dealer! Thanks again to everyone that entered, and especially to all of our wonderfully weird and incredibly generous sponsors! Oh, and HAPPY HALLOWEEN from all of us at THE HORRORS OF IT ALL!

THOIA just wouldn't be complete without a pre code horror tale... see, my son decided at the last minute to change his Mine Craft halloween costume into a terrifying ventriloquist dummy (thanks  Goosebumps Slappy!), so here we have the perfect tale to send shivers up your spine, just like a cold, manipulative hand entering you from behind to... uhhh... man, let's just read the story!

From the May 1952 issue of Adventures into Weird Worlds #6.

SON OF KARSWELL
AIEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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Number 1463: Ditko does his Thing

Halloween is tomorrow, so it looks like I’d better get a couple of bags of cheap candy for the neighborhood monsters. But...wait. I think I have a few of those miniature candy bars left over from a couple of years ago. Heh-heh. I try to discourage the kiddies from coming back to Casa Pappy, but as I’ve found out over the 38 years I’ve lived here, the neighborhood kids aren’t discouraged by mold on stale Snickers bars.

So...where was I? For Halloween I’m presenting four Steve Ditko stories from the infamous Charlton horror comic, The Thing. The stories, scanned from black line reprints published in a 1972-73 Australian comic, Doomsday, were uploaded by scanner Bladeshade9. Thank you Bladeshade9. I appreciate your efforts, and if you come on over to my house I’ll give you some Halloween candy. I’ll even scrape off the mold.

Unlike Pappy’s candy, these Ditko stories may be old, but never moldy or stale: “The Worm Turns” and “Day of Reckoning” were originally published in The Thing #15 (1954). “Rumpelstiltskin” and “The Evil Eye” are from #14.

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Number 1462: Warren Kremer’s Burke and Hare

Warren Kremer (1921-2003) was one of the most talented artists in the history of comic books, but you’d hardly have known it. Over most of his career he drew the fantastic kid-friendly strips for Harvey Comics, including Casper, Spooky, Richie Rich, et al. He didn’t sign his work and until his name became known by fans he was kind of comics’ best kept secret.

Early in his career Kremer was drawing more adult fare, crime comics, and later he delivered some terrific covers for the Harvey horror comics. With this story of the infamous duo of Burke and Hare for Ace Comics’ Crime Must Pay the Penalty #2 (1949), which he signed, he showed he could handle drawing dead bodies as well as friendly ghosts.

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HAUNTED HORROR #7 / Wings of Death!

HAUNTED HORROR #7 is in stores now --I would've reported this earlier in the week but I was out of the country! Anyway, I'm back and as usual here's a preview story from the new ish to kick you in the ass, as well as Mr. Karswell's die-larious intro which is of course just as much fun for me to write as it is to pick out stories for each and every goddamned issue! Oh, what's that? You didn't know that did you? Yes, each issue of HAUNTED HORROR is guaranteed 100% DAMNED by God himself! And hey, don't forget about the big IDW / Yoe Books contest giveaway as mentioned in our last post HERE-- you still have time to enter at all fellow participating sites and blogs so do it NOW and win yourself a stack of awesome pre code horrors!!!

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