Golden Age Islands of Terror!
Golden Age Islands of Terror! Not your vacationing hotspot but a physical cage for bad things to happen in. Islands offer the Horror/Suspense writer a Read More
Tag: The Thing
The Severed Hand in Comics II
If you missed the last one… The severed hand is one of horror’s classic monsters. Like most, it started in fiction before coming to comic Read More
Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Trees – Part 2
If you missed the first part…. Continuing our look at tree monsters. Last time the trees were angry because of murders, taking their justified revenge Read More
Plant Monsters of the Golden Age: Flowers
I have been wanting to reorganize my plant monsters from the Golden Age of Comics for a while. So what you will see is partly Read More
The Strangest Northerns: The Beast From Beyond
“The Beast From Beyond” was a strange Northern that appeared in Quality Comics’s Web of Evil #3 (March 1953). The creators are not known. This Read More
Severed Hands in the Comics
Here are more severed hands in the comics. As old as the Gothics, the idea of a severed hand that comes to gain revenge for Read More
Robots in the 1950s Golden Age
Robots in the 1950s Golden Age changed very little from the horrible invaders of the 1940s. The robots of the 1950s tended to be in Read More
The Moonstone Legacy: A Gothic Trope
Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone (1868) has left Mystery and Horror fiction a legacy trope. This is the idea of the terrible revenge out of the Read More
The Strangest Northerns: Oog Lives Again!
“Oog Lives Again!” originally appeared in Marvel’s Tales of Suspense #27 (March 1962). It was written by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and drawn by Read More
Mike Ploog at Warren
Before Mike Ploog made a supernatural splash at Marvel drawing The Monster of Frankenstein and Werewolf By Night, he drew four pieces for the horror Read More