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TORMENTED DEAD extraordinary tale of terror, horror, evil, madness, murder, death, disguise, lunacy, strangeness, monsters, grotesqueness, torture and namely much ODDNESS is an ugh ... on page 4 18-page MASTERPIECE beginning
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for
some-
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pleased
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entirety,
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to
we received for SCREAM magazine # 1 it's from MICKEY BARRON of Jeff David Road in Thomaston, fan
first
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letter
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GEORGIA
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the
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"... Mr. Hewetson ... have finished reading your first issue of SCREAM and found it delightfully horrible ... believe your artists are some of the best ... the story liked best was 'I, SLIME' ... all the others were also great in the future it might be nice to occasionally see stories about the horrors of the future thank I
just
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Mickey Barron
from DAVE SIM of Kitchener, Ontario was most impressed, indeed, with the premiere issue of SCREAM magazine. This book seems to represent a kind of pinacle in the short years editor Archaic Al has been with the Skywald company, and in the AI Hewetson - created - Horror .
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I
B-movie-like,
own the
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but, to each his Perhaps the best story in
issue
was 'THIS ARCHAIC
BREEDING GROUND' me very much reminds
which
I
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'I, SLIME,' was, in my opinion, a very good story ... liked the format of the third story
and
hatch BOB BURROS of Brooklyn "... It was good to see Dr. Fredric Werthless get
to
Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN. was both impressive and appropriate for the
SCREAM ..."
'HICKORY DICKORY DOCK' was positively superb. More, more
Park, Illinois picking up the
discovery of a creature while stranded in the Arctic) bore a striking similarity
Guars drawing story.
I
Your whole issue took me back the days of pouring over horror comics on a rainy Saturday afternoon. The stories were pleasant reading and pleasant company. to
—
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ARCHAIC BREEDING GROUND;' the diary form that it 'THIS
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... a word or two from Booby-
writing, while the story itself (particularly the diary
Mood. 'I, SLIME' was enjoyable mostly the artwork and use of photographs. Personally found the idea of the moving slime on the last two pages a little
for
Once again, continued success with your latest magazine and, at the risk of being redundant, " more, MORE
of the
Love craft-style
was
really
in
added
to
the
suspense.
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his -
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issue
in
#1
of
RICHARD RANN
SCREAM,
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magazine was and it really
of
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Oak
first
lived
issue of
up
to
SCREAM
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DICKORY outstanding
very
pretty
good.
DOCK' story.
COMICS
'THE
MACABRE,' was
the best story have read in a long time. really think that this story was based on an interesting idea. I
I
my
expectations.
Here are a few comments on the
'HICKORY,
THE
After first issue of knew that this going to be great :
was a
A good format, good contents, good art and a good ending. The sixth story 'THE TALE OF PERFECT CRIME' was
and some nice comments
from
The
art was perfectly matched witn tne story. The ending was really too good for words. With stories like this your mag. is
The
cover was really great; one of the best covers you've printed.
going to really be the best mag on the stand for a long time.
The final story was pretty good 'THE STRANGE PAINTINGS OF
JAY CRUMB.' I
hope you would keep
certainly
THE HEAP
up
—
Psycho;
in
he is the most exciting character you have created next to
THE HUMAN GARGOYLES ..." thanks to JOHN MORRIS of Wisconsin, P. BADALAMENTI of New Jersey PETER HIGHAM of Liverpool, England JAMES HEEGAN of New Jersey KENNETH HALL of Texas MARVIN JOHNSON of .
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MARIE SMITH of Brooklyn REMI YVES BRETON of Verdun, Quebec KENNETH REDDEN .
we are pleased to announce an EXCLUSIVE . . . INTERVIEW with CHRISTOPHER LEE, the man who is DRACULA ... sEitce We ate interviewing him at the time or this writing, the interview feature, with rare photos, will be printed in a future issue within a few months . . . miss it not . . . it's a movie macabre
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STOKES of Florida DEAN of Michigan
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New York
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as born in Barcelona, Spain, on the his genius 29th of June, 1942 .. painting became evident very soon ... on the 30th of June, 1942, .
for
Domingo was Pope Archaicus
commissioned
by
to paint the ceiling
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Chapel
of the Sistine
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in
age of 4 he was so _,. ork was appearing in 31 languages, not including his own, at the
unfortunately, and he was in demand At the age of 5 he all the world over contracted a rare lung disease and since that day hasn't uttered a single word ! He comes into the office on pay-day and hands the SKYWALD bookkeeper a little printed card !
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watch for TEAM REGULAR MORE art by DOMINGO coming soon 'THE THING WITH THE like RED RIBBON IN ITS HAIR' and THE LUNATIC CREATIONS OF miss 'em POE' ALLAN EDGAR they're GREAT ... and not DOMINGO'S GREAT .
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OF
appreciated comments read and will thankee people
helpful,
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FOR THE FACT
.
...HOW
IS IT
TWO CAN WITHIN
THAT
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ONE
IS
NOT UNUSUAL... FOR IT IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND THE PREMISE
.
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A MACABRE-DUO-
FOR MANY
SUCH AS STEVENSON'S
FAMOUS ,/£AOtt£ AND HYDE, SEIGEL'S
SUPERMAN, OR GOETHE'S
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FAUST...
WHO
TWO CAN DEAD IS
IS
HOW
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LIVE WITHIM OAflE
NOT SO RATIONAL...
AND HOW IS IT THAT ONE WHO LIVED CENTURIES AGOCAN DICTATE THE "LIFE" OF ONE IM 1973 DEFINES
THE. ...THAT IS OV* ONLY EXPLANATION... ANNE'S.IO HER ASTONISHED FRIEND BERENICE WHEN THEY ARE REUNITED, IS
LESS-ELABORATE AND M»!f
-
TEARFUL. ..FOR ANNE KNOWS /VOT
SHE OUT OF HER<7«,<W£ WW AND HAS ONLY SUSPICIONS ABOUT IS
THE DEAD-THING WHO DWELLS WITHIN HER..
PHENOMENA AS SUPERNATIONAL...
LISTEN TO ^lll ™ 1IF WHAT IT SAYS HERE... V "THE BLACK WITCHQUEEN WAS A FILTHY Ot-P HAS—HER. BOW WAS WRETCHED AND DISEASED... SHE LIVED IN THE MOUNTAINS APART FROM THE VILLAGERS OF SALEM AND WAS DESPISED AND FEARED BY EVERYONE WHO HAP EVER KNOWN A OR MET HER...
"SHE HAP AN OVERWHELMING PERSONAL POWER OVER PERSONS INTERESTED IN SATANISM AND WITCHCRAFT, AND HAP A HUGE FOLLOWING OF DEVOTED ADMIRERS, MOSTLY YOUNG GIRLS, WHO ATTENDED, HER EVERy WHIM AND WERE
HER
DISCIPLES...
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"...DURING THE WITCH TRIALS 5HE ANP HER. FOLLOWERS STAYED IN THE HILLS ANP
WERE NOT
INVOLVED, BUT WHEN THE HYSTERIA ENDED SHE RESUMEP HER
'ACTIVITIES' ANP
HER GROUP BECAME
NOTORIOUS...THIS GAVE CONTINUED CREOANCE 10 THE LINGERING BELIEF IN WITCHES..."
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CURSE EVER UTTERED..."
J CURSE THEE AND THY NAMES... THEY SHALL ALL DIE BEFORE THY LIVES ARE FULFILLED...
AND THY DESCENDANTS SHALL NEVER KNOW PEACE, FOR AT SOME TIME X SHALL RETURN
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LADY
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GREATER POWER...TW POWER OFTHE UNKNOWN!
...THE
MAC ABBE MOVIE OF THE MONTH...
...SCREAM SCREEN MOVIE REVIEW...
..•THEATRE]
OF BLOOD... .
.
ROBERT MORLEY
.
terribly
also
role as a fop, well-suited is
THEATRE OF BLOOD .
.
Is
.
.
.
by Al Hewetson
.
his
to
THEATRE OF BLOOD is NOT a horror film, .
it
and was
either role)
written
It's
COLM COOKE, antly
WOLFGANG SUSCHITZKY .
.
.
it's
hard to
the direction of
really
very lousy!! Whatever
story
by ANTHONY GREVILLEBELL, and nobody will get bored, because tightly edited by MALand pleasphotographed by
ever
role
DIANA RIGG (Who but plays a double role) is neither sweet nor vicious, meaningful or essential (in
.
a black comedy, and in such a presentation VIN-
CENT PRICE
nice
is
funny in his IAN HENDRY
as a semi-sensible person, .
was
tell
about
DOUGLAS
HICKOX, because the
film
excells
is
MEANT
DRAMATIC,
the story Edward Llonheart (Vincent Price) a veteran Shake-
ham actor who refused critical acclaim several pretentious
spearean is
by
... he commits and is revived by bunch of drunks who him in revenging his
critics
suicide
a
assist
—
honor
so accomplished murdering all
brutally
fay
the
of
critics
Shakespearean
.
.
the the
.
utilizing
devices
.
.
tho they might LOOK like guys, the 3 guys at are actually the VIC-
bad left
TIMS
.
.
innocent a really
.
while little
the at
girl
MASS
to
be
MELO-
but the entire
production is a pleasant package, and so we give compl imentary - ugh J to Hickox too ... a
...
sweet
n'
right
is
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NIGHTMARE #15
this Is
and on these
pages we review
editorial
WRETCHED BUNCH OIF I-ETTERS AND DEGENBKATK ANSOB3UCEMESTS,, .
.
.
.
.
.
».„A.
.
.
NEW
what's
.
UPCOMING? TER SUSO'S VICTIMS
.
.
don't
fhing
.
and what's well for one miss SINIS-
DARE SAGA OF THE
—
soon
starting
.
.
it's
.
pages
now on
#2,
SCREAM
of
sale)
.
.
(and definitely the best looking member of the whole ugly Jaundiced Jane's bunch) .
.
.
THE LUNATIC CLASS
of '64, will
be presented
so miss
not
it
.
SOON
another GAL we're kinda LADY present is to SATAN who makes her macabre debut in SCREAM #2 black exciting, beautiful, this anti-heroine will be a regular continued character in every SCREAM along with the tales of NOSFERATU ... by Archaic A! and Rancid Ricardo Vilia.
.
.
proud
.
monte
.
.
.
.
.
see the little coupon on this is going page? to be a regular feature from now on ... we want to know
... this
•
.
.
.
exactly what's going through your mind when you read our titles and this is the only way we know how ... so help us fill out the huh? out, coupon (or write on a piece of paper) and send it in to us month but THIS just not .
.
.
—
EVERY MONTH
.
.
.
replies
—
HEAP
'Yes
our
in
HEAP' question-
no
naire . . like MARK SORTZI Utica, Michigan, who says; "the space used for the Heap :
.
THE
the HUMAN GARGOYLES great Hewetson is not another blood and guts w .
.
.
.
could
used
JAMES
and
series",
better
much
a
for
FLETCHER of New Rochelle, New York, who writes: "I think welHhoughl-out a ending for the Heap and the series should be left at that ... it was very touching"
was
.
.
.
.
.
.
ing
grace
to
PSYCHO GEORGE
.
.
.
.
and
many
GREG
KING,
YES
say
others
GERTRUDE
of
and
.
.
.
READUS
of
Chicago writes: "Please make him happy" and BILLY HANEY of Texas tells us: "Heap's
—
him
either put or change
too fat a diet
lookin'
on
quit saying . and don't all the time think God had much to do with . the evils of this series" so far, the vote is split 50/50 . but all the votes aren't in we'll report your yet and artists
.
.
.
.
.
'God'
—
.
.
.
decision .
.
York
soon
EILEEN writes:
.
BIGGER
swers
your
an-
story in the little
favorite
4-pager: 'DIE LITTLE SPIDER', closely followed by ONLY THE
STRONG SHALL SURVIVE THE HUMAN GARGOYLES
,
.
JOHNSON "the
.
.
.
.
.
your
are .
.
favorite characters favorite all-time
and your
.
story
.
.
.
"THE
.
MAN"
MUMMY"
.
.
.
.
"DIE
.
zines .
was
popular
Ricardo
Villamonte's
ONLY THE WRETCHED YOUNG ... as one reader
.
.
DIE
(unsigned)
addition to graphics, his panel layout indifferent
was
story
.
"in
.
.
his use
...
was
I
1
DEMAND
.
.
TAINMENT
... we ALSO
.
.
.
.
'fantasy'
main-stay
our
is
HORROR,
TRADITIONAL
and and
as the readers demand
it
DEFINE
means
it
.
.
.
Creeps
Ghouls,
...
that
and Vampires
poem by TONY
weird
a
PSYCHO
read
whenever
dare! read time get a helluva scare!
—
I
And each
.
of
Heap
New and
Frankenstein are over-done but
this
.
.
note
interesting
ALFRED GALLEGOS. am a new reader to
"I
magazines
and
find
.
is .
.
your your
all
Here in stories fascinating. Fort Worth your magazine is am hard to get, which is why in total desperation in finding literature like this" . . I
.
"... To
wrote bebe frank, had a beef about somehurting your that is magazines. Once in a while in find stories your books, about both vampires and werewolves; don't you think that is cause
it
I
it
.
.
and whenever
fills
and it's
But
with Iright why say out of sight!
now
and
all
my
triple
—
I
that
and take I
read
I
me
that's still
I
.
it, .
.
SCREAM,
those dares horrors
—
.
.
.
my NIGHTMARES1!
triple
I
'
little
I
.
I
I
a
real
bit
old
meaning
hat,
of
is
that the
terror,
horror
"... The
best story
in
NIGHT-
MARE #13 was "ONLY THE WRETCHED DIE YOUNG" I
sort
of
like
and one seen is
GOYLES
"...
of
character stories, best I've ever
the
"THE
HUMAN
..."
GAR-
wouldn't really like to see a non-comic Horror Magazine Digest 'cause mostly like my literature in comic form though anything by (even Archaic Al would probably become a collector's item!!) ..." I
I
COM^G
.
DEMANDED
and
fiction'
but
.
.
is
give you weird
'macabre'
the
of
'science
company
oriented
and deliver what
I
,
from
thing
IS
it
werewolves and vampires .... we are an ENTER-
I
.
believe
told you that 9 letters we receive exactly that . . more
truel!
to the plot, but the well told, in both
caption and art, with an unusual and successful ending give us more Villamonte" .
maga-
"
you
we
if
excellent
page and
of
fine
is
would
come
just the
all
all
...
get
I
.
.
Alfred, out of
.
Rancid .
wrote
plug your maga-
I
cause they will and read
over
stories
.
very
also
.
SLITHER.
.
"THE PRINCESS
.
OF EARTH" .
between these 3
split
is
titles
SLIME
"... When
I
BUNCH OF QUESTIONS NIGHTMARE #13 was
zines around the school, most think I'm a baby, thinking it's only a kiddie comic book. won't let them borrow it be-
I
.
.
.
.
pages
the
MAX CRAMPTON,
WAYNE LARSON, StESTRE, ELBA SCOTT THOMSON, LES ZANDRETA, ANDY MILIKIN, JOHN KESTER, GARY COYLE, JAMES GIBSON, KEVIN ROCKHOLD, MARK PERRY, VICTOR SHARP, PATRICK BOSSIO, GERALD
WARD
.
according to your
.
.
.
.
— those
are samples well while of the NO-HEAP vote the YES-HEAP vote is equally vehement about this continu.
.
gar-
imps, devils, druids. archaic temples women, and Egypt-
foreboding sorcerers, ian gods"
be
about
stories
and fear? In other magazines have read so many of this type that my canine teeth and incisors are getting longer I
.
more
.
goyles,
of
RIFELLI,
.
.
,
teresting
this
.
... and speaking of GALS ... we bid welcome to JAUNDICED JANE LYNCH of otir CHICAGO-TOWN who's member mood-team newest
first tale:
.
speaking of little coupons we've received some in-
.
a 120 page, 6 chapter EXTRAfeaturing the 2 most you'd ever victims luscious hope to see (for an advance look at these two gals see the
VAGANZA
editorial
.
.
.
.
.
.
become
filling
in this
involved
coupon
— help us understand — the first
copy of the next Issue
My
.
favorite story this issue
Here's
WHY
this
was
.
your likes n' dislikes 5 entries will receive an advance
by .
Out
the
of
order,
.
was:
the best story:
—
probably
stories
my
you
Best ones as follows
be
THE PRINCESS OF EARTH, THE SLITHER-SLIME LUNATIC PICNIC, and
TAW, MAN,
FUNERAL BARGE
"...
Your
frightful
as
titles are just as possible but if
.
n'
other
.
RAP
.
so— it's
—been
FOLK
SCREAM #2 your local newsstand .
a
WEIRD
don't forget available
now
is
HORROR-MOOD .
.
I
to make up one, it'd something like "THE THIRD SLAB ON THE LEFT IS RESERVED FOR YOU!
were sound
etty
.
at
..."
.
-,-rllWMrCj-
.
...
or something similar ring to it .
thai " .
has a
.
NIGHTMARE #15
ate
PUBLISHER'S ENTRY NOTE:
RECENTLY OUR EDlTOR/wR ITER, ALAN HEWETSON, VISITED THE SMALL TOWN OF ARKHAM IN MASSACHUSETTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF INTERVIEWING A CERTAIN HAY. WHO WROTE US THE FOLLOWING LETTERS WEEKS ASO...
HOWARD
MnnstnHMIHENETSON UHTMTHIirZESAR
PROFESSOR
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ONLY iMyj AFTER THIS NOTE WAS RECEIVED FROM PROFESSOR HAY... WE KNOW ONLY TOO WELL THE CORRUPT HISTORY OF THE BEAST 'SHOSGOTH', AND ANYTHING THAT MIGHT BE BROUGHT TO LIGHT MIGHT Do MUCH TO QUELL
NEW
PROPHEStEO, IMMINENT
OOO/W THAT THE ATROCIOUS
NECAONOMtCON
OFTEN
PREDICTED FOR THIS EARTH...
WERE WARMLY GREETED BY PROFESSOR HAY...WHO LOOKED ALMOST RELIEVED AT THE SIGHT OF THE TWO YOUNG MEN... AND NERVOUSLY LAUGHED AFTER ...THEY
THEIR INTRODUCTIONS...
..YES..
YES...
COME
IN
*
GENTLE MEM...I HAVE COME"^ UPON SOME.. PAPERS... STRANGE ) PAPERS THAT MAY/ BE OF GREAT
VALUE to MANKIND...
DOYOUM1ND
\
AWAY WHILE YOU\ TALK PROFESSOR ? }
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J
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ARE... HORRIBLE AWJUSCRlFTS WHICH SUSGEST BLACK THINGS EVEN THE VILE MGCRPNOMtCON WOULDN'T OARS,..
THEY
WOMAN
DURING THE ...THEY WERE APPARENTLY WWTTeW BY A LAST CENTURY... THE )?TH CENTURY... WRITTEN ABOUT THINGS HERE
IN
ARKHAM...
TELLS OF A DREAM SENTL&WEN... A DREAM ABOUT THE FUTUftC OF THIS EARTH...THE AWKWARD UNNAMEABLE FUTURE THAT WE MUST BE AWARE OF... ...IT
g
REei\f^»RTH...AND
SO STARTS OUR TALE...
.THE WOMAN
IS
AS #IY$T£fitOU$
tf£AS£Lfi AS THESE PAPERS WHICH WERE RECENTLY UNEARTHED WHEN A LAND DEVELOPER TORE DOWN HER HOUSE... ...IN 1
NO
HOUSE ALONE... HAD NO FRIENDS. SAVE A DEPARTED HUSBAND BURIED IN A LARGE
1869 SHE LIVED INTHE
RELATIVES,
CRYPT
IN
THE BACKWARD...
JUNE 18. OF 1869, THE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE OFFICIALLY RECORDEP HER Af/SSt/VG... PERHAPS THESE PAPERS. A KtNDOF 0/ARYOFAOAY-- WILLANSWER THAT QUESTION...
JT..ON
..
PUBLISHER'S COMMENT: WE CLOSE WITH THE LAST WARNING OF THAT OLD WOMAN WHO DARED TO STAND AGAINST THE SHOGGOTHS.. ...WE CLOSE WITH THE THOUGHT THAT... IF AN OLD WOMAN CAN ACCOMPLISH 7WS AlUCH (T TAKES ONLY A MEASURE OF BELIEF ON OU*, PART TO TOTALLY CONQUER. THEM... W/U WE TWO*.. OR ARE WE ...AS SKEPTICAL ABOUT THIS AS WE ARE ABOUT
EVEOYTHtNQ ELSE?
R.l.fi
...1973
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AVE.,
BELLMORE.
N.Y. 11710
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HELL-SPAWNED GIANT, LIES THE CRUMPLED REMAINS OF ONE ONCE HUMAN] TAUT SKIN LIES
BARREN
DRY— STRETCHED
AND
OVER
BRITTLE BONES, AS FLAKEY EYE-FLESH DEMANDS THE FLUIDS LOSTJ . .
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THE
FACE]'
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I
tSOME CREATURE
DRAINED ALL THE FLUID
FROM
^ALMOST AS IF... AS
I
HIS
BODY!!!
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STARTED MANY YEARS AGO... JUST
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WHEN
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ROOM
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MOST OBWOUS
PLACE...
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THE 6H0UL OUT OF HELL AL HEWETSON
by Archaic
llustrated
MAELO CINTRON
by Mac
is Martin Emglon; this town is Hume on the Lake, a jut on e land beside a Bay on the Atlantic. I live mar the graves on Death Hill, I'm left alone and to myself no-one cares to know the village cryptkeeper few come to visit their dead up here and so, I'm left to myself they think I'm old and will die up here. There is nothing about Hume on the Lake to make it a special place; in the summer some people put on some old Shaw plays and people come to see them, but otherwise there's nothing here, except it's a nice, clean, pretty place ...
... my name high
flat
.
—
.
—
.
.
yesterday was sitting on my roof watching some boats trying to make a landing on Damnation Island. Some kids were trying to clamber onto the rocks but the waves battered their rowboats about too much and they couldn't get a hold on the slimy, smooth surfaces. They were about to give up when the waters underneath them began twisting and snarling about and the whole ocean . seemed to erupt in a churning, seething fury . then the thing came up coated in green slime and brown mucus, it stood erect like a man ... it was more than 8 feet high and its arms were thick as fire-logs and all gnarled like rotted tree roots ... its head was loose flesh that seemed to jiggle like jelly when it moved; its mouth was matted thick with old dead hair that hung down covering almost all its face ... it was bellowing and howling and shrieking so fiercely it deadened-out the screams of the children . . .
.
I
.
.
.
.
.
.
... it grabbed one of the little boats and threw it ashore, smashing it to ... the kids in it were thrown all about the shore, their heads were crushed, most of them, all of them lay still and unmoving when they hit the ground. Some of the kids were drowning in the water. Two of the big boys were hitting the thing with their oars but the ghoul just grabbed them and snapped the limp bodies in half like twigs ... it was an awful sight . bits
.
.
saw all of sitting on my perch on the sight only lasted a few minutes, my roof, looking across the Bay ... the thing killed all the kids, dragged some of them back underneath with it when it decided the carnage was finished ... in its bloody wake the dead bodies of the children littered the island edge, half-in half-out the water, some of them drowned, some of them battered and smashed up beyond recognition, all of them dead .
.
it,
I
.
.
.
.
in a few days guess, up here on Death Hill ... I Thinking about what this morning, thinking about them. have to question nature and what monstrosities are on this ghouls . things living under the earth that we know nothing of earth . monsters living in the oceans we've never '.een . . . things without those kids minds that can reason out their actions. It was a horrible sight makes you wonder ... { all dying .
.
.
they'll
be buried up here
I
made a few graves I'd
seen
I
really
.
.
.
.
.
.
—
.
—
'
... was wondering too, as damn ghoul maybe blow was going to try yesterday but I
.
.
.
watched yesterday, if could maybe kill the its head off with a ball from my old musket. I
I
I
was too intensely involved watching the scene, I seeing the monster, seeing the kids dying ... just didn't want to leave to was away but now get my gun less something exciting happened when I'm waiting I'm ready sitting here on my roof with my musket in my lap for it .when it comes up again I'll try to put a shot into its brain I
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issue Of the
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SHARPE
MOOD-TEAM fanaMIKE ALFORD out there Of the University of Mississippi "... spend about S40 writes the following tics
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OF THE SWAMP MONSTER'
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favorite story
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suggested
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MANY
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like
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RULERS'
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THERESA
GIZZI
PIT
OF DEATH'
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.
Henryette,
Of
THE
Oklahoma, who suggests
JOEY GUTH
,
who Ohio, 'FRANKENSTEIN'S MAL DESNIGHTMARE'
of
Connecut,
suggests:
.
CHAUX
of
:
HURT'
.
J. H.S.
who
Pennsylvania
Darby, qests
of P.S.
.
Darby
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GARGOYLES DON'T CLARANCE FLUKERijfj .
in
New York
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LOUISj BACK THE KNIFE' SOTOLONGO of Westingl HS in Brooklyn, New York whoi .
.
.
'SCREAM OF THr and
issue
is
and
he
readers,
the .
DEMAND
"'EW
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to
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LOOK
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maybe you'd
you'd
like
GOING on
:
.
ZEB FOSTER of Harvey, Illinois who suggests 'FRIGHT' JODY MORSE of Edwards. MonBEWARE tana who suggests THE DEMONS OF EARTH' .
,
1
Burlington Oily High in BurlingNew Jersey suggests ton
:
THE HEAP
this
WHAT
ARE RICK GHAUL of
'REVIVAL OF SATANISM'
that
SOMETHING has DONE ... we HAVE
IN
IDLESS MASS OF DESTRUCTION? ... if so ... let us
Ohio,
'FROGS
:
isn't
you,
WILLY who
.
.
of Nortfield,
.
.
wont appear again EVER unless
TOM HOOTEN
like
.
.
KOZL1K
.
.
and that
gotta be
Greenville Junior H.S. in Greenville, Texas who suggests:
suggests
us
NADO
is
of
'SPARGON
. .
DAVIS, architect,
the
ot
we receive daily from you interested weirdos who are about as weird as WE Just titles
are
HOWARD
.
.
writes
story
'DEATH LURKS ON'
—
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A GHOST ACTUALLY KILLING ANYONE !!'...
—
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.
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artist
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a cross
is
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.
.
"... my favorite characters are THE HUMAN GARGOYLES, my
.
CBU/
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.
:
.
Walt of Brooklyn writes:
in
.
.
'THE VAMPIRE OF like 'THE BOUTHE OPERA' 'THE TIQUE MACABRE' BLACK ORCHIDS AND THE 'THE TALE OF ANNE' BLACK SCULPTURE OF THE 'THIS PHARAOHS' 'AUTOHAUNTED EARTH BIOGRAPHY OF A VAMPIRE'
GINZBURG H.S.
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.
one of receiving votes on it the most INTERESTING com-
all and each of 'em and our thanks to you for they've got sending them in our brain pebbles going and as a result we got some pretty WEIRD ("weird" is our word of the month) titles appearing soon .
.
NO-HEAP VOTE
City,
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EVAN
.
weird-titles
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Whitman
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Tenessee who suggests: 'NIGHT
.
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t
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