The Witch's Vengeful Return

As we quickly approach Halloween, it's time to drag out a 300 year old witch for some THOIA black magic! This one from the July 1953 issue of Baffling Mysteries #16 features some attractive art from Louis Zansky, and a most welcome body count too! What witchy movie am I thinking of?
















(CLICK ON THE WITCH-- IF YOU DARE!!!)

Search into the Unknown! (and for contest winners)

More heinous hits from HAUNTED HORROR #16-- in stores NOW! Yep, we thought it's time to show you non-buying comic kooks what you're missing-- in its ENTIRETY!! We have a few more stories to go, and today's slithery classic originally appeared in the March 1953 issue of Beware! Terror Tales #6, --it's 10 whoppin' pages of cold blooded action and eeeeeevil!!

***Also, we have our 3 winners in the HH16 Contest: Grant! Brandiweed! and JD! Email your addresses to me at karswell @ hotmail.com (remove the spaces) --yes, you nightmarishly doomed fiends each get a personalized copy of HH16! Thanks again to everyone that entered!***

Whence Stalked the Werewolf

Tale number two from the August 1971 issue of Nightmare #5, a hairy yarn with an ending that's a whole lot more predictable than the twist in the previous Skywald post. Speaking of, a few of you mentioned first seeing Slime World when it was reprinted in the pages of the Psycho Yearbook #1 "best of" --and todays story may also have you also screaming deja vu as it was reprinted in their Nightmare Yearbook #1, three years later in 1974. Anyway, nice 'n slick artwork here from Carlos Garzon, obviously working from photos to give it that extra realistic look.

She Wouldn't Stay Dead!

If our last post left a grisly bad taste in your mouth, here's a somewhat lighter, even humorous Bill LaCava horror classic, originally presented in the January 1952 issue of Mystic #6. (And for those of you that will never get to sleep tonight unless you hear the song, click HERE for "The Last Rose of Summer.")

Reincarnation

re⋅in⋅car⋅na⋅tion [ree-in-kahr-ney-shuhn] –noun
1. the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.

2. stories today, the first from the July 1952 issue of Witches Tales #12, and the second from the August 1954 issue of Journey into Unknown Worlds #30, with art by Mort Meskin (since some of you were just talking about him in the comments of our last post.)

[Interestingly, the first story seems to warrant being tagged as about being zombies and possession rather than straight-up reincarnation. -- Nequam]

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Bonus Filler

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After Death!

We're taking a short breather from the Atlas tales this week, but will be back soon enough with more for those of you that voted for it... in the meantime here's a Vince Fodera "cat-horror" story that I had already scanned and on file (originally intended for posting eleswhere) but since I barely have time to even change my mind lately here ya go.

From the February 1954 issue of Mister Mystery #15.

NEXT! Ghosts Gone Wild!

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THOIA reader Peter Hope-Evans performing onstage in the UK at the Equinox Festival with his band PESTREPELLER while sporting his Horrors of it All tee shirt, which by the way is still available and still only $15.00! (info at the top of this page) Thanks PHE! Keep on rocking on!