Martians invade this issue of The Monster Times. With an interview with Ray Bradbury, Martian movies covered, Orson Welles terrifying radio version of War of the Worlds, and Martians in the Movies as well as Martians in the Comics, you'll go out of this world.
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Brian Lewis's cover art and John Bolton's Curse of the Werewolf highlight this issue.
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The pro-zine Magick Theatre, put out by Raymond Young, was always a long reading experience as it was packed with content. In this issue there is an interview with Forrest J. Ackerman (Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine), Susan Cabot (The Wasp Woman) is remembered and Review O Rama provides critiques for your viewing pleasure, with the Movie Noose Reel providing the low-down on remakes, half-bakes, and well-dones. And still more to enjoy and bring back memories.
Treats in this issue include people-eating monsters, the demons of doom gang up on a werewolf, the Crypt of Superstition beguiles (would have been great to have seen this section continue), The Witch's Pit beckons, and Bloody Head speaks for itself. Happy Halloween!
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Dying is Contagious and Werewolf are nicely gruesome stories in this issue of Weird. Zombies, vampires, and monsters, oh my!
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"Ugh! You look like something we used to dissect in medical school...only worse!" or "I didn't have the heart to tell the poor guy he may lose both hands. I've always wondered if I could graft on new hands and make them work...SAY...those hands in the drawer?" You decide, in Bloody Ten Fingers. In the meantime, Jeremiah has an overbearing mother, but not for long, and Horror Harbor has that death by the soggy seaside fun you know you love, with art to die for.
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A Gypsy band of zombies, three men in a tub wreak terror and death, a corpse jumps up and buries somebody else, and a spider woman puts the bite on some suckers. Oh, and they managed to squeeze in a witch's curse for good measure. And the first three stories were never reprinted! So read them now! What's scarier than the stories? The inside front cover's ad, that's what.
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Read more in the magazine morgue.
Get hexed by the swamp witch, have A Nightmare in Blood and lose your head (exciting close up, flowing art by Antonio Reynoso), and more monstrous art in Black Light Terror to savor. Just remember to always keep a flashlight handy. Wait, do I hear Call of the Monsters? Gotta run.
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With wonderful artwork from Cirilio Munoz for The Ogre From Space, and with lines like "You mustn't go, Flora! Tonight all the intelligences of the stars are favorable for contact!" and a new cover, how can you pass it up?
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More to savor from Zombos' Closet's magazine morgue.
Wade into The Murder Pool and lose some weight, spend a Night of Terror by mistake, and don't take finger rings from ghouls with big eyes. Your eyes don't deceive you: Ghoul Without Pockets was printed with pages 47 and 48 out of order. So read page 48 before 47. You may also notice that the cover is a poor cut and paste job from previous issues. Weird. Very weird.
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Eat the Flesh! Drink the Blood! gets my vote for the Creeper Keeper Award. "Hey! Get a load of that spider! It's like, HUGE!" Mike Howlett in his The Weird Indexes of Eerie Publications believes this story may be an original because he couldn't find a precursor. It would make an awesome radio horrordrama.
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One of my favorite stories, Never Curse a Corpse, reappears in this issue. Great artwork (Cirilio Munoz), great ending. This is the last issue that "Chilling Picto-Fiction" appears on the cover.
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