The Man Who Warmed the Bones of the Dead! / The Idea!

In just a few short weeks we'll be halfway to Halloween! But as everyone here already knows, everyday is Halloween at THOIA, so let's unleash a couple of ghastly old g-g-ghosts to further p-p-prove my p-p-point! Bob Powell, (as promised in our previous post) returns to warm up this haunted house of horrors with 10 atmospheric pages of pure nightmare fuel! From the June 1952 debut issue of Strange Suspense Stories #1 --and check out that bone-chilling cover by Sheldon Moldoff! Also, if it's just too scary for some of you, how about a cute Droopy Dog bonus page via Laffy-Daffy Comics #1 (1945.) We can't let Yogi have all the fun, now can we? And okay, this isn't quite the same Droopy that some of you are likely already familiar with, but it's still a nice little chiller ghost filler! BAARRF! ARF! Give that dog a warm bone!

Doorway to Horror

Earlier this month we took a stairway to madness, now it's time to open an epic doorway to horror! From the November 1951 one-shot issue of World's Beyond #1, and featuring loads of atmospheric Sheldon Moldoff artwork, --this one's lengthy, but frightfully fun. We have a few more horror doors to still open before the big night comes down on the 31st, so what's everyone got planned this year? Something terrifying, I hope!

Tomorrow is Today

I've been posting stories here at THOIA since 2007, and aside from one text page entry from 2009 HERE, I believe this is actually the very first Ouija board related comic tale I've ever featured (someone please correct me if I'm wrong.) It's weird though, right? Ouija, or "spirit" boards have been popular since the late 1800's, so you'd think there'd be a bunch of related comic tales. Can anyone think of any others to recommend for future posts here? This also concludes our frightfully fun Fawcett precode series fest of B!TTs... from the July 1953 issue of Beware! Terror Tales #8, with art possibly by Sheldon Moldoff (again), and / or maybe Ed Moline. Now, does anyone know who created that sinsational witch cover?

Custodian of the Dead!

Let's do another one from the May 1952 issue of Beware! Terror Tales #1, and this time from the great, Shelly Moldoff! We have a super Bernard Baily cover to show you as well! Okay, "Custodian of the Dead" is an interesting title for a story, and on a similar note, way back in 2013 we put together the great Jack Cole's Deadly Horror collection (that you can still order by CLICKING HERE if you haven't already done so) which also contains a story with the exact same custodial title! Read it right HERE in the THOIA Archive after todays post...

The Fleshless Ones

So after two short ones in a row, you get two long ones in a row! And if that ain't a "that's what she said" joke, I don' know what is. And I apologize for not remembering who sent these scans to me eons ago, (I believe it was one of the Tommys who used to donate scans for Haunted Horror occasionally), but here we go with another very lengthy, Fawcett fright-fest full of scary Sheldon Moldoff skeletons and, well, --even more skeletons! From the June 1953 issue of Worlds of Fear #10.