The Sea Waits for Me!

Something a little different for everyone today, as THOIA hears the ominous ocean's call, and responds with a one-way trip into the darkness of the deep. From the March 1956 issue of Journey into Unknown Worlds #42, art by Dick Ayers.

The Dead Witch!

I feel like a few of you thought the previous post was our last entry of 2025, --well not bloody likely! And yes, behind that grisly Sol Brodsky graveyard of terror cover, via the April 1952 issue of Suspense #17, there's a few more scary stories we still plan to finish out the year with! For starters, this weird 'n witchy Dick Ayers / Ernie Bache team-up, written by Hank Chapman. And how great is that Mort Gerberg gag? hahaha!

I Can't Stop Screaming

Our awesome All Atlas August Fest continues now, and as mentioned I have quite a line-up of THOIA fan favorites coming up! If names like Russ Heath, Robert Q. Sale, Marty Elkin, etc sound exciting-- then you are definitely tombed to the right blog! And of course you can't have an Atlas Fest without some really good dick, --aka Ayers that is-- and saaaay, here he comes now, creepy crawlin' atcha from the joltin' June 1952 issue of Journey into Unknown Worlds #11.

Silence! / Don't Make a Ghoul of Yourself!

Time for a Double Dip of Dick-- Ayers that is, --by anonymous request! What's up with all of you anonymous people lately?! Oh, and since Brian Barnacles snarkily screamed at me for "more Atlas!", it's now time to kill two kooky bird brains with one post! First up, from the June 1952 issue of Astonishing #14, it's a weird and (shhhh! mostly) wordless tale of terror, followed by a ghastly graveyard ghoul-o-rama from the August 1952 issue of Astonishing #16. I've even rounded it all out with an excellently eerie cover by legendary Bill Everett! We're sort of spiraling out of control here at THOIA, so stay tombed for more as 2023 slowly winds down... down... dowwwwwn...

Shock Treatment!

I had a request for a shocking Dick Ayers electric chair tale a while back, and here it is after a few weeks of brain wrack trying to remember what and where it was published... from the October 1952 issue of Spellbound #8.

I Don't Believe in.... Ghosts!

Continuing on our October journey into mysterious, supernatural madness, with a King Kirby classic from the February 1962 issue of Journey into Mystery #77... ever see a spookier splash page in your life?! A truly great cover team-up with dynamite Dick Ayers on inks too!

His Father's Secret!

THOIA celebrates Father's Day today with an appropriately themed time-travelin' tale o'terror, illustrated by Dick Ayers and Ernie Bache and from the March 1953 issue of Astonishing #23. I have a few other things lined up on our schedule first, but now that I have this eerie issue pulled out, we might take a look at a couple more stories from it later this month too, (no secrets!) --so stay tombed...   

Hand Wrenched from the Grave / Tortures of the Damned

Blogger's acting glitchy again, and I've been trying to get this one up for a few days-- anyway, I guess it's working now, so here's the final weird west horror post as promised, finally... another spooky fun "Tales of the Ghost Rider" double feature, both by Dick Ayers and both from the March 1953 issue of The Ghost Rider #11. Has anyone ever seen (or have) one of those cool mail-away Ghost Rider masks in the ad below?