Treasury of Terror

[allthingshorror]

Christopher Lee's Treasury of Terror (Pyramid Sept. 1966)

Mort Drucker

Do You...

• believe the dead come back?
  
• get upset by headlines of shocking murders?
  
• fear the dark powers of eerie cults?
  

Then prepare yourself for terror...



CONTENTS:

The Mark of the Beast by Kipling
Wentworth's Day by Lovecraft and Derleth
The Past Master by Bloch
The Death of Halpin Fraser by Bierce
Dracula's Guest by Stoker

[carolinec]

Ooo, this looks nice! I've been bemoaning for a long time the lack of interesting-looking horror comics. I've tried a few - got one a while back by a guy called Dave Golding who was signing stuff at a comics fair, just to try it and see what I thought - but all the new stuff like that tends to bore me to tears!

I guess I should be looking for older comics like this "Treasury of Terror" - ones which have the good old-fashioned kind of story, which I always prefer in books and on film anyway! I do have one issue of Boris Karloff's "Thriller comic" which is rather nice.

[dem]

Jan 16, 2009 12:39:09 GMT carolinec said:

Ooo, this looks nice! I've been bemoaning for a long time the lack of interesting-looking horror comics. I've tried a few - got one a while back by a guy called Dave Golding who was signing stuff at a comics fair, just to try it and see what I thought - but all the new stuff like that tends to bore me to tears!

I guess I should be looking for older comics like this "Treasury of Terror" - ones which have the good old-fashioned kind of story, which I always prefer in books and on film anyway! I do have one issue of Boris Karloff's "Thriller comic" which is rather nice.

In that case, try ordering a copy of Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics from your library and see what you make of it. I much prefer it to Mammoth Book Of Zombie Comics simply because it covers the pre-code/ old style comics through to the present day, whereas ... Zombie is decidedly modern.

That Treasury Of Terror looks intriguing, John. I bet Rudyard Kipling never imagined a comic-strip adaptation of The Mark Of The Beast when he wrote it (!), but thinking of the plot, it all makes some kind of hideous sense! Thanks for sharing.

[benedictjjones]

if you do like zombies caroline have a look for 'the walking dead' more about the people and their emotions/relationships in the face of the zombie plague and the new world which that creates. collected volume 9 is due out at the end of the month - great stuff!!

[carolinec]

Thanks - that "Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics" sounds like a good idea! Mind you, I doubt if my library will be able to get hold of a copy - you should see the trouble I had with them a while ago when I tried to get an up-to-date copy of "Who's Who in the Movies" to see if it'd give me contact details of film directors, writers, etc for interviewing purposes!

It's not really zombies I'm into, Ben, it's just old-style horror. Zombies might certainly be included in that, but not exclusively. No, the one with the references to old horror comics sounds best for me. Cheers! ;D

[stephenbacon]

I know what Caroline means about the 'older style' horror comics. The new comicbooks, whilst sophisticated, and probably offering more depth, loses the innocence of the older ones. Even the 'camera angles' in modern comic artistry is too film-like.

I prefer the old ones. I have 'The Mammoth Book of Horror Comics', and the vintage stuff is far superior to the new work, in my opinion.