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Post by jamesdoig on Mar 14, 2018 6:40:53 GMT
I just purchased some early 50s horror comics reprint issues from this outfit. Do you mean the reprint comic Haunted Horror, or the hardcovers? They're always entertaining.
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Post by helrunar on Mar 14, 2018 12:34:50 GMT
I bought 3 issues of Haunted Horror (the actual comic book--I enjoy the format of a comic book) and one of Weird Love, although romance comics usually aren't at all interesting to me--the stories had circus themes and the cover sold me.
Quite interested in the compilation they published a few months ago of Devil-themed horror comics. It's available inexpensively in paperback. Sounds like fun.
cheers, H.
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Post by dem bones on Mar 15, 2018 4:30:57 GMT
I just purchased some early 50s horror comics reprint issues from this outfit. The quality and selection of the issues I got were excellent--the mags chosen were really obscure, with beautiful color that remained faithful to how these were originally printed (except the paper and ink were much better). League Of Comic GeeksThis new compilation, released in January of 2018 with a Mummy theme, looks like fun. Sorry but I am unable to post the cover image. H. Thanks for the tip, Steve. It sure looks fetching. Steve Banes [ed.] - The Chilling Archive Of Horror Comics: Mummies (IDW . 2017) Tony Mortellaro Blurb: Movie mummies will soon be terrorizing theater goers! Now, from the boils and ghoul who bring you Haunted Horror, scream with delight over these stories unleashed from Pre-Code horror comics. SEE! The brutal attack of "The Living Mummies!" SENSE! The strangest "Case of the Beckoning Mummy!" FEEL! As "The Unburied Mummy" intensifies its powerful grip upon your puny throat! And there's a tomb-full more! PLUS! A crumbling gallery of classic mummy comic book covers, and spine-tingling guest appearances by Frankenstein's Monster and Charlie Chan! You'll be screaming for your mommy as MUMMIES! shamble into your trembling hands!Bibliography update. May be some duplication of stories previously listed - it's been a long thread ..... William Bayle Bernard - The Mummy: or, the Liquor Of Life! A Farce In One Act. (Turner, 1836). Theo Douglas (Mrs. H. D. Everett) - Iras: A Mystery: (Harper, 1896; Dodo Press, 2009). T. Wyatt Nelson Empire Of The Necromancers Clark Ashton Smith - Empire Of The Necromancers. ( Weird Tales, Sept. 1932). An endless army of plague-eaten bodies, of tattered skeletons, poured in ghastly torrents through the city streets. Zothique. Mmatmuor and Sodosma, fugitive Necromancers, reanimate an army of skeletons and mummies to build them a city. Illeiro, two-hundred years in the tomb, retains a spark of independence and resolves to end the pair's tyranny, return to the blissful peace of oblivion. His confederate, a particularly withered mummy so hideous even the rest of the walking embalmed avoid him, recalls an ancient prophesy. Poetic, gory justice is duly dispensed. Hugh Rankin, Out Of The Aeons Hazel Heald - Out Of The Aeons. ( Weird Tales, April 1935). A tale of elder magic and a monstrous idol - a shuddery story of primordial evilWyatt Blassingame - Mummy Medicine: ( Dime Mystery Magazine, May 1934) John H. Knox - Girl Into Mummy: ( Dime Mystery Magazine, Dec. 1935) Paul Ernst - Bride of the Mummy: ( Dime Mystery Magazine, July 1936) Wayne Rogers - The Mummy Pack Prowls Again. ( Dime Mystery Magazine, April 1937). When that dreadful malady, which had destroyed half the youth of the village, threatened my adored Velma, I thought nothing worse could happen... I didn’t know, then, that worse indeed was the ghastly plague’s own soul-destroying cure!Ray Cummings - The Mummy in My Arms: ( Dime Mystery Magazine, July 1937) Russell Gray - The Maid and the Mummy: ( Dime Mystery Magazine, Aug. 1937) William Christopher - Unwilling Bride of the Mummy: (Walt Hicks [ed.], Death Grip: Exit Laughing, HellBound Books, 2006) There's a neat 'The Mummy In Fiction: A Bibliography For Starters' listing on Mick A. Quinn's The Sanguine Woods. Intriguingly, Norman P. Kaufman's finest/ sickest moment, Lady On Display ( 19th Pan Book Of Horror Stories, 1978), makes the cut. Had never even considered the story in a mummification light, but, on reflection, Mr. Quinn has called it absolutely right!
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Post by helrunar on Mar 15, 2018 15:15:02 GMT
Cool, Kev! I did think that Mummy cover had your name on it...
cheers, Steve
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Post by dem bones on Mar 24, 2018 8:52:17 GMT
Many thanks to Justin Fanatic for providing the following graphics and commentary.
Justin writes:
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Post by helrunar on Mar 24, 2018 14:02:21 GMT
By the sacred unholy cackling of Freda Jackson, a Mummy-themed roman-a-clef featuring versions of Warren and Ackerman! Sounds like a real page turner!
Thanks for sharing Justin's cool scans and excavations!
Best, H.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 8, 2018 9:57:59 GMT
By the sacred unholy cackling of Freda Jackson, a Mummy-themed roman-a-clef featuring versions of Warren and Ackerman! Sounds like a real page turner! Ackerman also turns up as a "vampire expert" or somesuch nonsense in David McDaniel's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #6: The Vampire Affair (Ace, 1966). Incidentally, I was completely unaware of these "he was a creepy sex pest" allegations until you alluded to same on the Sarban (with a generous helping of Gor) thread. Horrible. Arlton Eadie - The Scourge Of Egypt: ( Weird Tales, Oct. 1929). A strange tale of a mummy, a scarab, and Kephra-Ophis, slave-driver for the Pharaoh who oppressed the Israelites. Hugh Rankin “Yes, I am Kephra-Ophis!” he roared. “Lord of the Lash—Keeper of the Slaves! Ho-ho! Faster there — faster, you dogs! Ho-ho! Faster!” Dynamic young surgeon Noel Drayle buys the mummy-case and bandaged occupant for a fiver at auction. On learning the mummy's identity, Drayle invites his pal, the great hypnotist Dr. Harland, to conduct an experiment in thought transference, with Drayle serving as earthly receptacle to the slave-driver's Ka. Drayle's wife has no liking for the controversial Harland, who is currently under investigation by the British Medical Society. Sensing danger, Esther is moved to "confess" to her husband that she is Jewish, and therefore, should the sadistic Kephra-Ophis somehow take possession of his soul, it is she will be on the receiving end! "Come with me, Esther. You will laugh at your hysterical fears when it is all over,” assures Noel, who promptly administers a sedative. Noel Drayle lays down beside the mummy. Dr. Harland puts him under. Within paragraphs the transfer is complete and Noel is temporarily the scourge of the Israelites! Which is when a scarab beetle crawls from beneath the mummy's bandages, crosses to the couch where Drayle lays, climbs his face and .... Jessie Adelaide Middleton - The Mummy's Foot: ( The Grey Ghost Book, Eveleigh Nash, 1912). "Nothing would induce me to write the full story of the mummy at the British Museum ..." begins the author, who instead fobs us off with this palest of substitutes, an account of the minor inconvenience which befell Miss Westwood's when she arrived home from a New Year's party with a novelty mascot. The foot - that of a female dancer - is gifted her by a Mr Stanhope *, who stole it from an ancient tomb in Egypt. He seemed suspiciously keen to be rid of the thing. Jessie disapproves of such relics, but Miss Westwood, who is without superstition, sets her good luck charm on a bookcase, and forgets about it. So begins the reign of underwhelming terror .... * Not his real name.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 8, 2018 13:47:44 GMT
"The Scourge of Egypt" sounds most amusing--and many thanks for the scan of that great illustration. But I can comprehend now why Lovecraft felt frustrated when Wright rejected "The Colour Out of Space" but printed absurd tripe such as this. I wonder, however, whether one of the editorial considerations was that "Colour" was novella length; presumably, Wright wanted a selection of shorter pieces to make up one issue of the mag. I've never actually seen or handled a complete issue of Weird Tales. I believe there are complete scans of some online--I should have a look, one of these days...
I actually read The Vampire Affair sometime circa 1970--it was the only one of those UNCLE books that grabbed me enough to procure and peruse, because of course it was about vampires, right?? And of course, I had only myself to blame that the titular Undead turned out to be purely from the realm of Scooby-Doo. The only thing I recall about the book is a character proving to superstitious villagers that he was not a vampire by attending Mass in the church on Sunday. This ritual was described at some length, including a detail that startled and fascinated me where the man kissed a cross. I was raised Episcopalian, and our church was the opposite of High--I've never known if the expression for that was "Low Church" or something else (I'm imagining a dismissive sniff from matrons and prelates who have airs). So, the Mass as described was more exotic to me than vampires creeping forth from crypts swirling with bats and the shadows of black capes.
cheers, Steve (incidentally, NOT the same Steve who used to be on here years ago, in case that isn't blatantly apparent)
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 9, 2018 9:35:14 GMT
I had no idea either - I guess it's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 9, 2018 21:23:27 GMT
I had no idea either - I guess it's just the tip of the iceberg. 93 pages - and rising - of uneasy reading. FJA's me too Moment: Classic Horror Films Board. Back with the mummies, there's a neat review of Brian J. Frost's bibliography at The Free LibraryBorrowed this illo from MagicCarpet Burn blog. Larry Ivie Gordon Fry - Mummy's Rumble: (M. J. Shapiro [ed.], Monster Parade #3, Dec. 1958). Have yet to read any of the fiction published in Monster Parade but, as the title suggests, it seems they favoured horror with a rock & roll slant. Cases in point: Colin Cassidy - Revenge of the Jukebox Vampire ( MP#1, Sept. 1958) Robert J. Cassidy - Rock Around the Tombstone ( MP#1, Sept. 1958) Alex Merriman - Dig That Crazy Scientist ("The old guy was a lot hipper than the hipsters thought." MP#2, Nov. 1958) Matthew Shipwreck - Zoot Zombie ("The rock 'n roll record was a hit .... but not to the Thing it was written about." MP#2, Nov. 1958). Elliot Zucker - Hipster from Hell ( MP#3, Dec. 1958) They seem to have dropped the r & r angle for the fourth and final issue (March 1959), which includes Alex Merriman's The Thing Behind Hell's Door ("It looked human - except that it was inside out!") and Charles D. Hammer (Robert Silverberg)'s Demons Of Cthulhu.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 28, 2018 19:02:02 GMT
John A. Keel - Satyr-Man: ( The Fickle Finger of Fate, Fawcett, 1966: Coronet 1967: Michel Parry [ed.], Superheroes, Sphere, 1978): America's most sexually insatiable superhero makes short work of a reanimated Egyptian mummy. Pity he's not so hot at exiting a building via the fire escape. John Keel - The Mummy Maker: ( Man’s Magazine, Oct. 1955). "I threw open the door and stared in horror. Piled in a corner of the dank cellar were seven stiff bodies, awaiting their turn in the cauldron!". Cairo. Keel arranges a meeting with an old timer who controls the Black Market in "ancient" Egyptian mummies from out back of a shop. The demand for these reeking relics far outstrips the supply, so the Arab and his colleagues have taken to manufacturing their own. And now they suspect Keel is a Government spy .... Elizabeth Ann Scarborough - The Mummies of the Motorway: (Jean Rabe & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.), Historical Hauntings, DAW, 2001). "During the war when asphalt was not to be had for civilians, me old dad told me they ground up all them mummies the museums had dug up in Egypt and brought over here ... the bandages the bodies was wrapped in were coated with something like pitch, and it worked almost as good as the genuine article ... they do say when you have these wet spells, washouts and the like, it's them mummies tryin' to bust their way loose from the road so's they can drag their bandaged arses back to t' Nile." According to Bert the Bus driver, the roads of Scarborough are paved with mummies, and he knows of that which he speaks. Bert is the ka of the Pharaoh Hamen-Ra, and a prime mover in the Motorway Mummy Liberation Front. The Scarborough's find themselves at the forefront of the protest when they cross the ocean to spend the Easter vacation in foggy, ever-welcoming Yorkshire. Fifteen-year-old Cindy is briefly possessed by an Egyptian Princess, sacred cats in rotting bandages walk again, and a hotel is lost to subsidence. If above chronic summary suggests The Mummies of the Motorway is big on laughs and thrills, it didn't feel that way while I was reading it. A very Marty Greenberg story, if you get my meaning. The Great as yet unreads: Anonymous - Letter from a Revived Mummy: (New York Evening Mirror, January 21, 1832). John. L. Schoolcraft - Death's Secret: ( All-Story Weekly, December 1, 1917: reprinted in Fantastic Novels Magazine, July 1950). Henry Glassford Bell - The Living Mummy & The Leyden Professor: ( My Old Portfolio, 1832). Seabury Quinn - Out of the Land of Egypt: [aka The Mummy Mystery], ( Real Detective Tales & Mystery Stories, (Aug-Sep 1926). A Major Sturdevant adventure in the Washington Nights Entertainment series [#24].
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Post by dem bones on May 5, 2018 10:59:13 GMT
Harry Ferman A B. Almy - The Ghost Of A Chance: ( Weird Tales, May 1941). A Travelling Salesman finds himself pressured by a mummy! Why Anthony Charleston, who won a mummy in a Charity Bazaar raffle and was haunted to the brink of destitution by its ghost, simply loves the sound of a fire siren. John Gregory Betancourt - Sympathy For Mummies: (Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert E. Weinberg, Martin H. Greenberg [eds.], Horror: 365 Scary Stories, Barnes & Noble, 1998). Professor Jones and team excavate the tomb of Atenkham, a minor bureaucrat in his day, only to fall foul of the mother of fiendishly boring curses. Esther M. Friesner - Mummy Knows Best: (Martin H. Greenberg & Daniel M. Hoyt [eds.], Better Off Undead, DAW, 2008). "Would you believe that it has now been over four thousand years since the skilled professionals of the Beautiful House removed my brains through my nose and fed them to the sacred cats?" The Beautiful House agency guarantee eternal beauty - provided the client is prepared to endure full, ghastly mummification. Ashley Cyprien, Hollywood actress, overcomes squeamishness to sign up for the full works. It is a all cruel ruse, though not in the way you might think. Company-founder 'Chet' is aka Tchet-Ptah-auf-ankh, a four-thousand-year-old sorcerer cursed to walk the earth until he can satisfy a bargain with Osiris. Tchet will secure safe passage to blissful eternity once he's provided 100,000 hearts and souls to crocodile-headed entity, the Devourer. It's taken him four millennia, but the current tally stands at ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine. Will Ma'at, the goddess of Truth, intervene to deny him his triumph? Written by the editor of Fangs For The Mammaries which, depending on you pov, should be endorsement/ deterrent enough.
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Post by dem bones on May 23, 2018 16:54:25 GMT
Many thanks to Justin Fanatic (yet again) for forwarding a bumper bundle of marvellous German action-mummy cover scans.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on May 23, 2018 17:33:49 GMT
I much prefer the action-mummy to the kind that just lies around and does nothing.
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Post by jamesdoig on May 24, 2018 10:04:15 GMT
I much prefer the action-mummy to the kind that just lies around and does nothing. My favourite is the punting mummy.
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