Here's the Circus of Horrors movie herald. This version came with the pressbook, offering movie theaters a sample of the advertising handout they could order. Pretty elaborate for a horror movie. The pressbook is even more amazing. It's a whopping 18 inches by 24 inches in size. A big pressbook for a circus big top movie.
One of the wilder horror movies out there. Way out there. Ray Milland and Rosey Grier butt heads in El Regreso Del Monstruo (The Thing With Two Heads, 1972)
Another inappropriately dressed victim being victimized for your gruesome pleasures adorns the cover of Shock, Chilling Tales of Horror and Suspense, Vol. 3, Issue 2. She must be cold with all that snow around. And dead people. And knife-wielding anti-social ghoul. Inside the covers, where it's warmer, gloves make the janitor (a killer), Danny fights for the woman he loves (against a legion of the living voodoo dead, no less), more voodoo dead set sail, and the faceless legion tightens its coils around an unlucky couple. Oh, and a certain lady of death wants to suck the life out of you, too, so…well…good luck.
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I bet you didn't know that werewolves carry weapons and big coils of rope, and have a penchant for drooling over scantily clad ladies wearing big hoop earrings? But they do if only for Stanley Publications' Stark Terror magazine. Here's some nifty horror comics to assuage that feeling of dread and despair we all feel after Halloween as we wait for next year's to hurry round.
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Central Press Association, 1935–Santa, fed up with all the Halloween holiday nonsense, sets up shop before October 31st, to tell eager young candy-gobblers, like brightly dressed Tim Burton, they should enjoy Santa's (s)elf-printed coloring books instead of sugary sweets. Santa's giant elf-handler and marketing muscle on the right (behind his chair), provides support to move the line along, even as little Tim desperately tugs on Santa's hand for anything sweet or chocolaty instead of crayons.
Los Angeles, 1956–In one of those life-altering moments you never realize until it's too late, young Adam Paradise ponders Eve Garden's seemingly harmless apple challenge.
And here’s a nice shot from 1956 of the Party City creative staff at their annual Halloween get-together.
Kenosha, Wisconsin, October 16th, 1962-Local thespian dons ritualistic Halloween costume and accidentally socks Lucinda Little in jaw while demonstrating the I-want-candy (and need to pee, but it can wait until I finish) dance. Lucinda recovers, but can't eat any of the Halloween candy her neighbors shower her with out of sympathy. Parents sue local thespian for damages, local thespian sues costume maker for making his mask eye-slits too small, and little Bobby Little (lower left), sues local neighbors for giving too much candy that his sister couldn't eat, causing multiple cavities and stomach aches for him.
Halloween window painting takes 3rd prize, October 24th, 1962 (photo by Carl W. Eysenbach)–While Ginny Bawman ponders where to put the Mystery Machine, she loses her footing and mistakenly grabs for the painted tree branch. Luckily, a passing shopper cushions her fall.
Las Vegas, October 30th, 1949: Sisters Pat and Francis are aghast to discover they have a third sister who doesn't share their fashion sense.
From Cleveland Press, October 31st, 1950 (photo by Glenn Zahn)–Joey and Janey Skittles are paralyzed with uncertainty as to what to eat first: Left Twix or Right Twix; sadly not realizing that their hard earned 2.5% savings account dividends would be swallowed up by the Great Recession in the future, making the flimsy Twix marketing conceit pale in comparison.