The Hitch-Hiker / Room for the Night

Taking a queue from the English here in early December with a traditional ghost story double feature to get you ready for xmas-- and for obvious reasons you know perfectly well why Mr. Karswell approves! Also, you know both of these classic supernatural tales, each has been told countless times in countless variations and cultures, and in some ways both have slipped into the annals of "urban legend" terror-tory as well! From the 1960 issue of The World Around Us: The Illustrated Story of Ghosts #24 from Classics Illustrated, artwork by Georg Evans and Reed Crandall on "The Hitch-Hiker", Gray Morrow on "Room for the Night."

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!

The Cask of Amontillado ***1000th POST!***

We’re celebrating Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday (Jan 19th) all this week, and here’s another cryptacular classic from the June 1951 issue of Classics Illustrated #84. And not only that, but in my backwards ass ways of addition I thought tomorrow was the 1000th THOIA post, when actually TODAY is! So where's my cake? Don't tell me I gotta rip off someone's head and make my own?

(Thanks again to Todd Hunter for the CI scans.)

TOMORROW: The Poe Celebration Continues, and Ho. ly. Shit. If I'm counting correctly, THOIA reaches a Milestone…

The Murders in the Rue Morgue / Morella

Happy 200th Birthday to Edgar Allan Poe!

And we’ll be celebrating for most of this week with some of Poe’s most memorable horror hits. Today we begin the festivities with The Murders in the Rue Morgue, from the July 1944 issue of Classics Illustrated #21… followed by a bonus story!



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Thanks again to Todd Hunter, who sent me these scans waaay back in May of 2008… I was saving them for this most special occasion!

TOMORROW: More Poe! Lots more…
Can’t wait until tomorrow for more Poe? Then check out David Tackett’s new Quasar Dragon II blog for The Curse of Metzengerstein, a THOIA submitted tale of terror from the June 1953 issue of Chilling Tales #16.

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Morella

And from the February 1963 issue of Dell Movie Classic #793 (aka Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Terror) and based on the motion picture “Tales of Terror” directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Peter Lorre, and Debra Paget.

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More from this issue tomorrow too!