World Of Horror

[dem]

World Of Horror (Gresham/ Dallruth Publishing Group, 1974-75)

Eds: Anon (issue 1), Gent Shaw (issues 2 -7), Boadicea K. Bathory (8 &9)

#1

Not seen. The "Frightening fiction: Three Tales To Make Your Blood Curdle" include [Anonymous] - Creature From The Tomb and John Mills - The Thing in the Greenhouse, have no idea of the third title. If anyone has details would be very grateful were you to provide them.

#2
Quiz Time
Monster Memo Contents
Monster Mailbag
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Don't Go Up The Stairs
World Of Horror Looks At Pop: The Monster Mash
Zardoz
Tom Christopher - Trapped By Thirst-Crazed Baboons In The Arizona Desert
Scream Scene (News)
Horrorscope
The Sexy Son Of Dracula (cartoon)
The Many Faces Of Christopher Lee
Cartoon Cackle
Secret Societies: The Terror Of The Holy Vhem
The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires
The Rocky Horror Show
Monster Madness
Georgianna Lee - "The Clown That Cried Blood"
Scream Queen: Valli Kemp
The King Of Horror: Boris Karloff
King Kong
The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad
What Sort Of Man Reads World Of Horror?

Chris Achilleos, Crowning Glory: Kevin O'Neill, The Head Of The Firm.

#3
Quiz Time
Monster Memo Contents
The Hand Of Glory
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Crowning Glory
Carry On Screaming
The Canterville Ghost
Films Of 1958
Niel Turnbull - Trapped 76 Days On "Crocodile Island"
Jack The Ripper (Musical)
The Beast Must Die
The Gothique Film Society
Rollerball
Scars Of Dracula
Scream Queen: Marlene Clarke
The Many Monsters Of Dr. Who: Part 1
The Day Of The Dinosaur
Bela Lugosi: The Original Dracula
Fantastic Planet
Monster Madness
Scream Scene
Frankenstein: The True Story
What Sort Of Man Reads World Of Horror?

#4
Quiz Time
Monster Memo Contents
The Many Monsters Of Dr. Who: Part 2
Mail Bag
Scream Scene
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Head Of The Firm
Special Effects Quiz
Ramsey Campbell - Rising Generation
Films Of 1958
The Ghoul
Vampira
The Star Trek Phenomenon: Part I
The Hell-Fire Club
The Dracula Society
Horror & Fantasy In The Cinema [Book review]
Horror: Mexican Style
Damsels In Distress
The Loch Ness Monster
Phase IV
Anon - The Continuing Saga
World Of Horror Salutes Edgar Allan Poe
The Land That Time Forgot
What Sort Of Man Reads World Of Horror?

Artist uncredited, Don't Go Up The Stairs: Jim Pitts, The Shade Of Apollyon

#5
Quiz Time
Monster Memo Contents
Fantastic Planet
Mailbag
Lee James - Nutrient
The Star Trek Phenomenon: Part 2
And Now The Screaming Starts
Scream Scene
Dr. Death
Life-Style
The Mutations
Blood Sisters
Theatre Of Death
Planet Of The Apes
Peter Cushing
Lee James - Death Run
Book Corner
The London Film Festival
[Ken Hill's] Dracula
Jack The Ripper Competition
The Island At The Top Of The World
Georgiana Lee - Mr. Watkins Farewell
Tales From The Crypt: The Vault Of Horror
The Many Monsters Of Dr. Who: Part 3


#6
Quiz Time
Monster Memo Contents
Paul Scarrow - The Continuing Saga: Part 2
Mail Bag
Gore Creatures [Fanzine review]
World Of Horror Looks At Pop: Ringo Starr Goodnight Vienna
Playten Snyder - Can't See The Wood From The Trees
Lon Chaney, Man Of 1,000 Faces
Dr. Who Part 4: Petrifying Pin Ups
David A. Riley - Terror On The Moors
Scream Scene
The Women Of Star Trek
The Christopher Lee International Club
Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist
The Towering Inferno
Young Frankenstein
Rollerball
Cartoon Cackle
Frightmare
Popcorn (Comic strip by Kevin O'Neill)
Symbols Of The Sinister
World Of Horror Looks At Fanzines

Kevin O'Neill, Can't See The Wood From The Trees: Lee, Man's Best Friend

#7
Quiz Time
Monster Memo Contents
Mailbag
Vincent Price
Scream Scene
Legend Of The Werewolf
Playten Syder - Mans Best Friend
Madhouse
David A. Riley - The Shade Of Apollyon
Phantom Of The Paradise
Macumba: The Cult Of The Dead
Book Corner
Flesh Gordon
Towering Inferno Competition
David Hardy: Space Artist
Mayhem For Moppets
The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue
Andy Warhol's Flesh For Frankenstein
The Village Of The Damned
World Of Horror Looks At Fanzines
Roger Dicken: Special Effects
Space 1999
Dr. Who Part 5: Petrifying Pin Ups

#8
Quiz Time
Monster Memo Contents
The Longleat Dr. Who Exhibition
Mail Bag
Scream Scene
Night Of The Bloody Apes
Night Of Bloody Horror
Andy Warhol's Blood For Dracula
It's Alive
Lon Chaney jnr.
Scream Queen: Ingrid Pitt
Philip Parsons - The Continuing Saga: 3. Diary Of A Madman
World Of Horror Looks At Fanzines
Tommy
Films Of 1953
Books
David A. Sutton - The Bestwick Papers
Isle Of The Dead
Malcolm Furnass - Jewel Duel
How Many Frankensteins?

Steve (Jones ?), Rising Generation: uncredited artist, Mr. Watkins Farewell

#9
World Of Horror Contents
The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud
Frank Belknap Long - The Brain-Eaters
Homebodies
Phantom Of The Paradise
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Blue Blood
I Don't Want To Be Born
The Ghoul
The British Peter Cushing Fan Club
Scream Scene
World Of Horror Looks At Fanzines
Book Corner
Mail Bag
Exclusive: World Of Horror Interviews Shelia Keith
Dr. Who: The Claws Of Axos
The Career Of Barbara Steele
Frank Belknap Long - The Brain-Eaters
[Andrew Lloyd Webber's] The Phantom Of The Opera
Films Of 1971

[andydecker]

Boadicea K. Bathory

One wonders what the K. stands for  Kassandra? King Kong?

[dem]

Most, if not all of the above issues are available on Archive Org (just type 'World Of Horror' in the search box).

None of the film articles are credited. 'Trapped By Thirst-Crazed Baboons In The Arizona Desert' and 'Trapped 76 Days On "Crocodile Island"' look as though they were swiped direct from a Men's Adventure pulp.

[jamesdoig]

I missed all this World of Horror excitement when Dem posted it. I've got the nine issues bound up and it's great stuff, according to the ads the same crowd who brought us Witchcraft magazine, and a few others. I think Johnny or someone already posted this add for the NEL horror series, and it's a nice one:



Plus the ad for the all singing, all dancing Jack the Ripper musical:



Not quite as questionable as the Ed Gein bust advertised at the back Psychotronic #15:

[andydecker]

Another magazine I never knew.

[dem]

Mar 8, 2018 9:35:14 GMT jamesdoig said:

I missed all this World of Horror excitement when Dem posted it. I've got the nine issues bound up and it's great stuff, according to the ads the same crowd who brought us Witchcraft magazine, and a few others.

Brian Netscher, credited as staff photographer in WOH, was certainly involved in the Black Magic'sploitation mag, New Witchcraft and sister publication, Mystic. James, if you get the chance, can you confirm the third fiction title in #1. Another of the Men's Adventure reprints (?)/lookalikes?

[jamesdoig]

Mar 9, 2018 11:09:24 GMT dem said:

Mar 8, 2018 9:35:14 GMT jamesdoig said:

Brian Netscher, credited as staff photographer in WOH, was certainly involved in the Black Magic'sploitation mag, New Witchcraft and sister publication, Mystic. James, if you get the chance, can you confirm the third fiction title in #1. Another of the Men's Adventure reprints (?)/lookalikes?

The third one is New Occult, or maybe just Occult, unless it morphed into Mystic as a sexier name:



New Witchcraft was just Witchcraft:



Which John Harrison talks about in Hip Pocket Sleaze:



All of these are hard to find.

[helrunar]

Ooh, Witchcraft! I'm salivating! Thanks, James!

Love the drawing but I can live without the ladies undergarments, erection creams et al.

H.

[dem]

Mar 9, 2018 21:33:14 GMT helrunar said:

Ooh, Witchcraft! I'm salivating! Thanks, James!

Love the drawing but I can live without the ladies undergarments, erection creams et al.

H.

Have a copy of the fourth, sadly, final issue, by which time it had added 'New' to the title. Vault (smirk) special feature here.

[helrunar]

Wow!  Thanks, Kev!

Best, Steve

[dem]

It (New Witchcraft) is an interesting read for sure. Format is virtually identical to World Of Horror, even the contents page is a variation of the WOH template. Three-man staff: Brian Netscher (Ed.), Hugh Bryant (Art Director), Martin Liles (Production Manager). Color painting reproduced below accompanies Robert Bloch's The Tchen-Lam's Vengeance - wonder if he even knew they were running it?

[David A. Riley]

Great Jim Pitts illustration there. I don't think I have ever seen it before.

[dem]

Mar 10, 2018 15:18:19 GMT David A. Riley said:

Great Jim Pitts illustration there. I don't think I have ever seen it before.

... which makes me wonder if Jim provided artwork for earlier issues of Witchcraft/ New Witchcraft, and possibly the rest of the Dallruth publications? From the line in the New Occult ad James has provided - "Also includes two gripping tales of the supernatural" - suggests they all ran short supernatural horror fiction.

[jamesdoig]

Mar 10, 2018 9:59:39 GMT dem said:

Have a copy of the fourth, sadly, final issue, by which time it had added 'New' to the title.

That would explain this ad, which had me a bit confused:



Mystic also looked classy, judging from this full page ad in WoH:

[andydecker]

Robert Bloch's The Tchen-Lam's Vengeance - wonder if he even knew they were running it?

I don't think so. If this is the story I think, it is quite well chosen, though.

Great magazines. All I have are a few issues of The Twilight Zone and the complete - I think - run of Fear.