Weird Issue Vol.5 No.6, 1971
Dying is Contagious and Werewolf are nicely gruesome stories in this issue of Weird. Zombies, vampires, and monsters, oh my!
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Witches’ Tales Issue Vol.4 No.6, 1972
"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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Witches’ Tales Issue Vol.4 No.4, 1972
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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Witches Tales Issue Vol.6 No.4, 1974
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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Weird Issue Vol.6 No.6, 1972
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.
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Weird Issue Vol.6 No.7, 1972
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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Witches’ Tales Issue Vol.5 No.6, 1973
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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Weird Issue Vol.11 No.1, 1978
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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Weird Vol.4 No.3, 1970
In this issue of Weird you'll find shrunken heads, floating hands, annoying corpses, wicked witches, and all of it nicely delivered in bloody black and white: a perfect treat for your Halloween swag bag.
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Monster Mania Issue 1, 1966
In the first issue of the short run (3 issues) of Monster Mania, the first part of The Peter Cushing Story, a great on the set (House of Dracula) photo with Lon Chaney Jr. and his sons, and The Reptile snag some paper. A way too short interview with Jack Pierce only whets the fangs, but the abundance of photos without corny captions does satisfy. A shame that Monster Mania didn't last for a longer run.
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Monster Mania Issue 3, 1967
One astute reader's Mania Mailbag entry summed up Monster Mania's coverage pretty well: "…just the absence of corny puns in the picture captions is enough to gladden the heart of one like me who has grown up with horror movies and is sick of seeing them treated as kids stuff. Thank you." No kid stuff in this issue 3, just more Hammer coverage, a lengthy blow by blow description of The Wolf Man by Richard Bojarski, followed by production information, and lots of unmarred photos. The Monster Record Jamboree ad page will bring back memories for some of you, as well as The Sorcerer's Shop of goodies. How many of you ordered the Spyscope Pen (I did!) or the Haunted House Mystery Bank (I did!) or the miniature camera (yup on that one, too!) The Cobweb ad page shows more nifty swag: there's the Spooky Lite (yes, got that one), and the awesome Pin the Monster head (hung that on the back of my bedroom door and loved it).
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The Monster Times Issue 48 (1976)
The Last Issue
The Monster Times went out with a whimper when issue 48, the last issue, hit the magazine racks. Not that the Six Million Dollar Man and cyborg coverage was poor, but at only 25 pages, with 5 full page ads, it was a slim issue to go out on. The teaser for issue 49, which never happened, would have entertained us with more Mexican monster movie coverage, It Came from Beneath the Sea, interviews with Vincent Price and others, and an "eye-opening treatise on horror stamp collecting." And…a look at the eeriest amusement parks! I wonder if any galley proofs of that lost issue exist?
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