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— a MANIAC he
and
kills
YOU may
is on the loose without mercy
—
be the next on his
coming soon
aw
listl
in
issaa The
metallic 'bat'
is
the crea-
tion of a
FRANKENSTEIN
VENTOR
tor
whom
IN-
everything
goes WRONG'.
Lord knows the mad inventor tries hard enough, but no-matter WHAT he invents it kills innocent people, destroys private property, explodes, or falls apart.
LIKE
A BAT OUTTA HELL
is
the tale of a man's battle against machines a battle he LOOSES, for the WAR is just a figment of his imagination and the ENEMY is within
—
his
own MANIAC MINDI
An innovative graphic story in the HORROR - MOOD style you've come to know and love • at all good newsstands soon!
A SKYWALD HORROR-MOOD MAGAZINE
- EDITED BY ALAN HEWETSON 6 JUNE 1974
NUMBER
...in tnis issue... ARTIST: FABA CONTRIBUTORS: BOADA CESAR FONT EDGAR ALLAN POE SUSO CESAR LOPEZ RICARDO VILLAMONTE
COVER
MS.FBUNBS80TTIE
SCREAM IS PUBLISHED BY THE SKYWALD PUBOKPORATION 18 EAST 41ST STREET NEW YORK CITY NY 10017 PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY PUBLISHtRS. ISRAEL WALDMAN AND HERSCHEL FDITOR ALAN HEWETSON PRICE 75,. PER COPY ANY RESEMBLANCE OF CHARACTERS HEREIN TO PERSONS LIVING OR DEAD IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL NOTHING MAY BE REPRINTED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER PRINTED IN CANADA ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DISTRIBUTED BY KABLE NEWS
WALDMAN
...A WORLD KNOWN AS DAMNATION AND
HELL! ...MAY YOUR. SOUL ROT IU HELL, MAN...
..Thus \<sclayton stokes.vampire.exorcised from this sarth-ihus is welcomed into the land of satan's oeptd..mis is the vampire murdered by his black brothers of earth" lest the reaper think for a moment his murderers were his soul brothers--uh-uh- wrong.. clayton stokes lost his soul 10 hell a lons, long time ago...as we shall learn from thefumeral oration of the reverend able livingston... 5
...TWAT
HEWASOA/C£-
UPON-A-TIME A HUM\AU BEING IS TO THE DISCREOIT AMD DISGRACE OF THE
HimM RACE...
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WAS// YEARS 010 HE WAS SO iou6H,mDsootmA6eous,Hii hired himself
:..Whew me
OUT TO 0R&ANI2ED CRIME.HE WAS A MIT MAN.tH enforcer. ..uncollected paid debts.. .
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"...He
hap livep so fast and so reck-
USSIY. THAT BY THE TIME HE WAS II YEARS OLD ME MAR DONE EVEKYTHINS... EXPERI-
ENCED ANYTHIH6...KN0HN EVERYONE...
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he was not as kxj woulp suspect. without /m/wy enemies...
"...But
Wm
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SLICING He FELLOW "..BEING COMPETENT, WORKERS BETWEEN THt-SUOULDER BLADES EVERY SO OFTEN, HE QUICKLY ROSE THE LADDER WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION, AND AT IB YEARS OF A6E, HE WAS PROBABLY THE RICHEST SELF-MAN KID IN AMERICA...
LtL
..IN A RESTAURANT IN THE UPPER 60'S OWE NI6HT, WHILE CM/MS ALONE WITH i/UJY FRIENDS, THREE GUNSELS ENTEREP ANP. BEFORE A CAOMP OF SO PEOPLE. .
TOOK HIM PRISONER..."
1 THEY TOOK HIM UPTOWN.. TO AW AmC.AWD THEyM/0
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"...HOW IT IS--OR
WHY
IT
WAS THEY
DIDN'T
WftSre
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COMPLETELY NO ONE KNOWS— BUT PERHAPS THEy SHOULD MAME... FOR CLAYTON STOKES WAS SO Wit OF «ATE HE WANTED REVEHGE ON THE WORLD...
CLAYTON
STOKES AS WO
MAN WAS £VffK...K:' THEY BUSTED HIS HEAD wipe open.
H%\
GMKANTEE
HIS
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Sft^ TO SWITZERLAND. *1 PLACID A PLACE A5 A/W TO RECOVER FROM THE BEATING AND HUMILIATION'...HE KNEW A W«/7£ G«£, WHO HE'D MET
GIRL THERE, A
AT A SOCIETY GATHERING IN Af£W WW*... HE DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HER, EXCEPT THAT SHE WAS RICH AND LIVED IN AN OLD OOTHIC CASTLE...
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"...And sHECtfwoaso' knew nothing about WW... WHAT HE WHS.. .FOR IF SHE MOO SHE'P NEVER HAVE BEEN INVITED TO SW/ IN THAT OTHER-CENTURY MANSE..."
S .No one knows.of
the
course, exactly, events within that cAsnesun they can Bi RECONSTRUCTED PRETTY EASILX..THEC0MV7SS-FOR INDEED THEMDI/TiNK AND RICH YOJUG GIRL WAS OF NOBLE 8lO0D,WAS HEIR TO HER GRANDFATHER'S RICHES AMD LANDS— BUT THE OLD COUNT LUGOS SIM CLEAR THROUGH THE YOUNG MAN AND REFUSED HIM PERMISSION 10 MARRY HIS GRAND-DAUGHTER WHICH IT WAS STOKES' BRAND DESIGN 1000...
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'.'..CLAYTON
STOKES
MURDERED THE
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..AND SHORTLY THEREAFTER
MARRIED THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTESS LUGOS... WHICH IN TURN, IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
OLD MAN...
HUNGARIAN MONARCHY... AUTOMATICALLY MADE OUR MANHATTAN GUTTER-FIGHTER A FUU-
BIOODEO COUNT— COUNT CLAYTON STOKES! r.THE COUNTESS WAS DESCENDANT OF THE GREAT HUNGARIAN FAMILY LU60S.WH0 WERE FORCED TO FLEE 10 SWITZERLAND DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.. .BUI THE NAIIS HUNTED THEM DOWN AND KILLED OFF THE PARENTS, FOR A PERFECTLY GOOD REASON 1011 WAY LATER GUESS--AND THE ONLY*«*7TVfOF THE FAMILY YET ALIVE WAS COUNT KARLOV WHO, HEARING OF THE DEATH OF HlSOtfUNCLE, CAME TO STAY WITH THE
MMHKf NEWLY WED STOKES
IN
THEIRCASTU HOME...
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M ..Stokes amp «a«tov took an immediate DISLIKE TO fACW CITHER AND STOATS WITH HIS CUSTOMARY AND STYLISH IMPETUOSITY, WENT ID KARICYS CHAMBER ONE NIGHT WITH ocm s iu ... ..Jo MURDER HIS
BOTHERSOME NEW IN-LAW.
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'...HUD IT'S
MY GUESS
THAT COUNTSTOKES OF HIS LIFE...
GOT THE SMOCK
you
WOULD KILL
ME?
yOU 00 NOT
lOV£tf£?
".XlAYTOU STOKES DIDN'T BOTHER TO VOICE AN ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION-HE LET RIP WITH /U£ HI5 NEW- FOUND P0IVCTS INTO COUNT KARLOV.. . ..MBCHOKEP H\IA SO FIERCELY GRIPPED ALE THE ARTERIES IN THE VAMPIRE'S HECK. ..BLOOD SPEWED OUT ALL OVER. ..YELLOW- BROWU BLOOD. ...VAMPIRISM ISN'T THE SAME ni REAL LIFE kS IT IS IN THE O0AUC SOWS AN' MOWS --WHEN THE VAMP/RE WAS DRAINED OF HIS SiOOOHEJUSTP/S)... ,
'505 SAW THE KINO OF MAW "..FOR THE PIR=T TWr ANNA CLAYTON STOKES HfsAUY lHAa...AW 1 WANNA TELL YOU i
^ HO...YOU
'
PE0PLE,SH£WASSOI«a>...SHEC«/N6ffl>INTHEC0RNER >" AT THE M0W7W... .
AS CLAYTON «07W£»
DON'T UNPERSTAUD,
\a
CLAYTON. ..YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND-, I DON'T HAVE TO BE A VICTIM...
He was pursued gy i»B/>ouce with A VIGILANCE UNPRECEDENTED IN THE ANNALS OF THEC/TY. THEy HATED HIS SiACK BECAUSE IN KILLING HIS ENEMIES, HE
fi</75--
WAS KILLING THE ENEMIES OF THE WW IN THE £WOC£SS"HE WAS WAKING THE-POL1CE LOOK LIKE IDIOTS— HE WAS £>0/«G 7W£« JOS FOR THBM..."
was living in a room in tub stage
:..Stokes ..Well, where hewmsin fact took mouths to be discovered - -remember the old apaua theater on w'strest? for years it
was
empty... but in re-
cent months >ouns people used it to put on a production of somethin' toe/ call afro-opera...that's how they came to find the
whereaboats of court stokes -vamptrb...
little
rafters where the lights, props an' curtains were controlled --stokes had" had pretty near lost his MIND By THIS 77/H5...HE WAG SLEEPIN' IN ACOfiW AND LEAVING THE OPERA HOUSE ONLY AT HISHT...HB WA5R£UYIUG THE FICTIONAL STORIES OF VAMPIRES HE'P LEARNED AS A WO... WELL-ONE PAY A
FEW MEMBERS OF THE OPERA COMPANY ENTERED AS HE WAS
CUMBIN60UTOF THBCOfflH...
"...
EVERYBODY
IS
IN
THIS
WOULD
ALWAYS TALKIN' 'BOUT HOW
STWW THE POUC£ ARE. ..AN' I GUESS.AT LEAST IN 7MS CASE, THE PeOPl^ ARE RIGHT... SEEING THE VAMPIRE FLY OFF IHTO THE W/6W THE POLICE QUIT THEAREAUSC5 ANP LEFT THEOflERA HOUSE
A DESERTED MAUSOLEUM AGAIN...
'...Stokes
watched them LEAVE HE WAS PERCHED OH A NEARBY
—
ROOFTOP JUST LAUGHIN'HIS
HEAP
OFF...
...Who bolply stepped out of the shadows anp «f7h> w«w the cross of cod to his terrified son..."
..THE «>«S WERE THESES ON AN OLD. OLD MAN WHO WAS NOT/l^M/O
OF THEWX/1V6 VAMPIRE...
.
..THE OLD MAN SHOWED HIS SON EXACTLY WHAT HE MEANT... HE FORCED HIM TO WALK OOT THE OflBM MX/SE INTO THE STREETS --HE PARADED HIM, DURINS THE SUSV flAWtf //OURS, THROUGH THE STREETS OF HARLEM.. .HE HUMILIATED HIS SON THE TRAITOR - -FORCED HIM TO BE THE SCORN OF Alt WHO WERE WITNESS...
..The son was powerless under the influence of
cross— and was forced to t<s7fk to the
the
barrage of his FATHER WHO Ot/OrfO £V£«y VfRSE OFEVERY PASSAGE biblical
HE
COWO REMEMBER
. .
became
stokes desperate. ..he believed so strongly in the vampire myths he was convinced the daylight would k«.l wai...nothing he could say to theolo/maw would <t<wW«C£ Wtl TO LET HIM BEfRfE ...SO DESPITE THE POWER OF THE CROSS, STOKES ATTACKED HIS FATHER...HE KNOCKED THE CROSS FROM HISHANDS... "..Clayton
...ABE
ANy OF USSO*Ry?...DOES
AW MAM HERE TODAY REGRET THIS
MURDER? THIS IS 1973 — BUT 700/iy WE HAVE KILLED A WWIPIRE--7D£W
WE HAVE/f/ltH>A*W/M5"THAT WAS NOT ALIVE, FOR HE 0/£P, FRIENDS, WHEN HE WAS IO YEARS oca..."
"
..ALLOW WE TO SAY BEFORE I flffiiVMy AM NOT A IHAOIHAN, NORA GIVEN TO PLIGHTS OF HMASINATION...<HHKl POLLOWStSTHE TRUTH.. AS IT HAPPENED TO 4HF,. MOTHER'S GRAVE I SHE*? ITOM /US., I
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DROWNED
SWEDE AND I WERE ROPED TO THE BROKEN BASEOF THE /HAW /HAST— THIS, AND THIS ALONE T THINK SAVED US FROM BEING DRAGGED TO THE BOTTOM'OF THE
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THO T
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MADE OF IRON IT CANNOT BE POSSIBLE TO WITHSTAND THE PRESENT PRESSURES THAT ARE NOW UPON IT— YET— IT IS WITHSTANDING IT..V IS
READER WILL *K*VT AN EXPLANATION I KNOW... IT NOT BE ENOUGH FOR HIM TO«S4£> THESE NOTES >«CWff| HE WILL WISH H.1 OPINION...
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MANY MEN -WofiE BRILLIANT THAN HIS fp£A§
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FIRST AND FOREMOST MAN ISA STUPID AND mRATtONAL /VCNS7ER
MORE MONSTROUS THAN I £V£ GOULD S6...0NLY THE WOtWOUAL /WONGST THEM EXERCISES INTELLIGENCE ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND ME FOR WHAT I AM-.I WENT OUT INTO SOCIETY AND WAS RSJ6CTBOOU SIGHT THO A*Y MtND WAS AS INNOCENT AS AN INPANT... THEY WERE REVOLTED AT MY APP€AfiANC£ AND CHASGOfM: FROM T*BS,W0!S7:,. MY FIRST
CONFRONTATION WITH NATURAL SORN WAN WAS ONE WHICH WAS NEVER. CHANGED IN THE YEARS AND CONFRONTATIONS THAT FOLIOWBD..
...WHAT
1AM
3ECOME
IS
UNCERTAIN.,. WHAT J
WANT
TO
IS EVEN CesS CERTAIN... I A*l OS«£/S7*<H3ATLlFE,..IAM DISGUSTED WITH EVERYTHING THAT /$ AND VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING THAT WAS... I FEEL MYSELF AN ONLQQKEP. T0£/££ -»
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MORE. ..AND NOTHING
LESS...
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TOU CANNOT TURN fOURffACK ON ALL ,WVJK(WP... NO -MATTER M///OJ '
lOUARE..
HE-MAN WHO WAS WED MONSTER CLOSED HIS E/ES AND VlSIOWEP HIS UPE... WHAT HE SAW IN HIS Ml NO 'S E VE WAS MANY
YEA3S OF USLIWESSAND /
ONLY A FEW MOMENTS OF HUMANITY... ME
OPENED HIS
EYES AND SAlpTOTHE OUEEN... "IT IS IRONIC THAT THE LAST MAN ALIVE SHOUU? DIE A VIRGIN... mSAMUSING THAT THE LAST MAN AUVE IS NOTA MAN AT ALL BUT ONLY
A PARODY OF A MAN... IT IS STRAN6E PERHAPS THAT** VENGEANCE UPON MAN SHOULD BE SO SWEET TOME, BUT I CANNOT DENY THAT MV LAST ACT ON THIS EARTH, OR RATHER, Mf\ 'FAILURE TO ACT', GIVES ME IMMENSE PLEASURE"... THEN THE MONSTER LAY BACK HISHEAD AND CLOSED HIS EYES... HE SMILED ALAST TIME AS HE
DECIDED TO
DIE...
...THE
FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER
DEAD.. .AND HERE ENDS SERIES OF TALES... .
.
IS
OUR
.THERE ARE MANY STORIES OF HIS
LIFE THO, THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD... FRAGMENTS... SITUATIONS...
TALES THATMISHT BE OF SREAT NTERESTTOTHE READER... SHOULD yOU WISH US TO PRESENT ,AN OCCASIONAL SPECJAL
APPGARANC£OPlH\% CHARACTER WRITE TO US to see
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The first truly magniticent horror film was made by D. W. GRIFFITH in 1914 - THE AVENGING CONSCIENCE, and was based on the works of EDGAR ALLAN POE ... it featured adaptations of THE TELLTALE HEART. WILLIAM WILSON. THE BLACKCAT, ANNABEL LEE, THE BELLS and THE CONQUEROR WORM. Though it is one of the finest horror ever made, it is not a good adaptation of Poe. Noone ever makes a good adaptation ol Poe, As sortie i
stated: "unhappily, the master pbet of the macabre mood does not transpose well to the cinema screen, beyond the mere illustration of his classic devices". This is not true. It is true that, unhappily, he IS not transposed. It is NOT true, that he CANNOT be transposed. For all the odd dozen adaptations made, not a single screenwriter has written a better, or more commercially suitable, script than the orcritic
iginal
Poe
vwrrr:
story.
in
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Vtnoant Prlc* alarrad
In
Ameri-
1M3 HAUNTED
International'!
PALACE, which wh a graat IHm though n had nothing to do with and Poa'a poam ol lh« aama lilia . waa In lad b»««d on a anort atory .
by H.P. Lovdcratl
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|foe-pourri of motrics THE AVENGING CONSCIENCE. 1914 |0W Griffith) MURDER IN THE RUE MORGUE, 1932 LugMi THE BLACK CAT. 1934 - Karloll-Ugoal THE RAVEN 1935 • Karlofl-Lugoal THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. I960 - Ptica THE pit, I960 • Brian Pack THE PIT ANO THE PENDULUM. 1961 - Prlca THE PREMATURE BURIAL. 1961 Ray Mllland TALES OF TERROR. 1962 PricB-Lorre-Rathbona THE HAUNTED PALACE. 1903 - Prica-Chaney -
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THE RAVEN. 1963 THE MASiJi--
Pr.ca-Kadofi-Lorra
THE' TOMB OF L1QEIA. THE BLACK CAT, 1965
'fiATH.
1964
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1964
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Prico
Prioa -
THE HOUSE OF USHER
.
.
THE TOMB OF LIGEIA
.
very sad — called 'commercially necessary' — and what's so sad. For Poe's It's
it's
original stories
that's
full of all the spicy, weird Ingredients we love The misguided, semi-literate producers evidently never bothered to read Poe, or this they would
were
to see.
know.
From the very beginning, Poe's
'ideas'
were merely
assimilated into other plots. His name was used • his story titles were mis-used. The only time he was ever given a fair chance was in Edward Abraham's 196062 THE PIT, featuring Brian Peck. In this short film, only one word of dialog is heard (in Poe's original story, there is no dialog at all). A critic described this film as "a genuine essay in horror"
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH above: a Hszel Court t cream below: a Vincenl Price ofgy
and
it
certainly
The
Karloff (1935} and
MURDERS citing
films
Is.
and Lugosi Universal films: THE RAVEN THE BLACK CAT (1934), and Lugosi's THE RUE MORGUE (1932), are ex-
IN
-
principally
because of
Karloff
and
Lugosi themselves, and Poe's devices, but not because of their half-axed plots.
Roger Corman, for American International, made a series of Poe vehicles starring Vincent Price In the 1960's, which include: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE
OF USHER (1960), THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961), PREMATURE BURIAL (1961), TALES OF TERROR (1962), THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963), THE RAVEN (1963), THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964). and the TOMB OF LIGEIA (1964). They are interesting, perhaps even memorable (principally due to Vincent Price, not due to Corman, we suspect, the notorious 'director-who-dld-not-direct', according to
...
THE TOMB OF
LIGEIA
... THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM ... - with Kartell and LuooaJ. "35 .
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Boris Karioff), but they are not the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. THE HAUNTED PALACE Is really a poepoem, but Corman used the title and made up a plot loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's THE CASE OF
CHARLES DEXTER WARD. TALES OF TERROR is a collection of 3 ehort stories, which Corman made funny
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Allan
Poe
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seriously
THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH Roear
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Edgar Allan Poe was a theatrical man - In his manner, his clothes, his writing matter and writing style It Is fair to suggest he would be delighted at the Idea of being transposed from print to film ... but were he alive today, to see how it's been done, he -
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As
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NOSFERATU
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recently went right off hi* rocker, so to (temporarily) confined to the GANANOQUE for observation! If we know Qui, HELL be the one
doing the observing! The reason for his (temporary) estrangement from the world It s combination of overwork and lack of moisture (ha has gilt* and can only breathe underwater
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my
favorite
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my
favorite
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cover
my
favorite type
of
sword and sorcery) stories should
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writer is
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suspense, science
fiction
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pages long
(b)
10 to 15 pages
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HORROR-MOOD
my
favorite
HORROR-MOOD CHARACTERS
story TITLE
is
are
{the Human Gargoyles-Nosferatu-Frankenstein-Monster Monster-the Heap -Lady Satan):
my favorite HORROR-MOOD series are (Darkkos Manse-Tales out of Hell-The Shoggoth Mythos-The Saga of the Victims):
think text stories are (good, bad, or comment)(stories like BUT NOT YET BURIED, THE IN THE DESERT,
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^|omthecounToften/
no HEAP- what'* the maHep?" "In issus #13 of ysur HORnOR-MOOD publicalion of PSYCHO, you made known of the end of your fantastic HEAP series. You ended the story with a coupon for a "YES HEAP ... NO HEAP" VOTE, and you said, thai i( there were enough voles in, you would con",„itil(
:
the
HEAP
saga. This
is
very good, and irable.
equafly shocked,
when
iivisi
I
I
SOME TIME
QUITE
PSY-
I
"The best story in NIGHTMARE #20 is THE SCREAM AND THE NIGHTMARE because THE STORY FAB EXCEEDED THE OTHERS IN THIS ISSUE AND THE 3H0GG0TH SERIES IS VERY iNTERESTING. My favor3ll-limB HORROR - MOOO ite slory is THE SLITHER - SLIME MAN, CAUSE ITS VERY EXCITING. The ART WAS FANTASTIC, AND LOVED THE SCRIPT. buy HORROR-MOOD magazines because IN MY OPINION THEY ARE THE BEST IN ILLUSTRATED TALES OF HORROR. FOR
WAS
I
STUCK WITH YOUR COMPETIJUNK, BUT THEN DISCOVERED THE HORROR-
TOR'S e #21, and STILL Whal's the matter?"
NO HEAP.
I
MOOD MAQAZIHES A WD
IT
WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, AND WILL NEVER GO BACK I
AGAIN.
My
MOOD
artist
tavorile
HORROR-
wretched RIC-
is
ARDO VILLAMONtE. My tavorits HORROR-MOOD cover arliat fetid favorite
FABA (SCREAM
ROR.
mink photofealures
is
type of story
I
My
#8)
HOR-
is
are'
THE ONLY PHOTO FEATURES THAT LIKED WERE THE MOVIE REVIEWS AND PREVIEWS. My favorite HORRORMOOD slory title is CASTLE OF THE VAMPIRE "DEAD. My CHARACTI
HORROR-MOOD ERS are THE HUWAN GARits
GOYLES. My Here's Ihe story, the
WHOLE
—
—
they were REALLY BADi We been said were disappointed. We resaiired (alter we received an overwheiming YES HEAP VOTE) to revive THE HEAP and to do one wham-bang dynamite GREAT series. So we solicited the art work of Hicardo Villamonle, who promptly left lo do advertising and other type work. We Ihen had no les» than 1 [count 'em. lour) artists TRY to come up with a NEW and worth-
while
HEAP
character [by
WORTHWHILE,
tolk,
in all honesty we mean WORTHWHILE), because we were DETERMINED to do il RIGHT ~" after time we were disappDinte
NOW
-
rking
HORROR-
series is THE SHOGGOTH MYTHOS. thirl ARE ALRIGHT IF THEY ARE KEPT DOWN TO ABOUT ONE EVERY TWO ISSUES [NOT MORE THAN THAT). i
stories
cept of
c
BUNCH
A BEHEMOTH QUESTIONS ENHAUSEfl. ihe
OF VON 'fiOD("— SCREAM #8
Nebraska
of
best story
in
"MY PRISON
is
IN HELL" beis a horroimaslarl His series gives
cause Alan Hewelson ficlion
him a good chance to develop characters like Nosferatu. Ce-
dla
down and
get boring
should have a
— you
HORROR-MOOD
HOTLINE COLUMN which would otter a behind the at
SKYWALD
previews. letters letters
of
scenes look and give news and
Also,
organize
your
and complete, —more RUSSELL SORACCll
New
"),
MESSICK of THE HUMAN
York, BILL
("—
'
il
favorite
MOOD
story
Sometime ago when the HEAP made his debut in PSYCHO #2 (pre-HOHHOR-MOOD) character showed promise Aithough ihe idea of THE HEAP was a swipe from olden limes ttie character we presented did show promise It becanie very popular, particularly wYien Pablo Marcos took o\er Ihe art dtoras The issues featuring Ihe HEAP stories, jusl as SKYWALD got into the HORROR-MOOD, were very popuiar. Then, as you know, a new artist look over the lasl two chapters of THE HEAP what can we say, in aii honesty, about those iast Iwo chapters that have not already this
Maryland
GARGOYLES
are
—I
fantastic
Ihing-
else which is occupying all ..._ _ _. ..._ moment! The HEAP is not dead far from it, certain bad elements, negative aspects, to the old HEAP ARE d'ead ~- in particular fhs unoriginal premise is deadi The HEAP is all new and it-i$-DYNAMlTE by the fineit HORROR-MOOD artist and one ol the Hneit
—
—
1
death,'
SCREAM
NEW
1
forget
the yiCTIJulS and
WORTH the 1 SHOCK o the
RETURNS!
the
DECADE when THE HEAP
I
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THE EXORCIST
THE EXORCIST by
EDWARD FEDORY
in the movie
THE EXORCIST,
the character ot Father
Karraa Is played by Jason Miller One cannot help but his pari was not developed lo ffie dynamic proportions m me screenplay as it was In the novel Perhaps Blatly did this intentionally perhaps he Idl llie viewing pubhc demanded a IIKIe more aclion and a little leas philosophy and thought As you can easily see this is ail assumption But leet Karras s4duI0 Jiflie l?een Ihe primary iJBurs m Ihe movie as he was in the book The novel focused on Karras as t^e central figure juhiie in the movie, i! appears that the roles shifted so thai Regan (Ihe young girl, played Ijy Lfnda Blairj was on atage-cenler
wonder why ali the Dheap sensalienaliam Ihal aeems lo grow like weeds around THE EXORCIST only one Ihing remains inie. (he original novel. It seams thai >ou can I pass a oewBsiand today viithoul ihe word enorcisl hawking at you tram benealh some gaudy letterhead. Certain newspapers have besi> commg out witli 'E;ior'cist" supplements, in the tiopes ttiat iKe meie use of the ward will truss up their sagging sates figures In every major paper we have rssd sloiies aboui people viha had violent readlons to the nravle. or people who went Dtl the proverbial "edge" Ihis to me, and to author William Peter Blaity is, to quote only myself manure— wtlh a capital "M", It mould seem to be REAL horror, il one thinks thai these people were watkine the streets just prior to seeing the movie say, that ff seeing THE EXOBCrST hefped tfiem io realise they needed psychological hefp, then the movie ha? done society a good turn; these people probably would have
ftmniBt
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t
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th^re
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tons of
Well, policy o1
trile
renew pap On I'd
I
.
of THE EXoRCIST when Ihe newsElands already'
hav
the SKVWALO readers informed and up'lo-date wiih vhat is happening In Ihe arls, concerning all things wiihm the theatre of the grotesque. More than a review of Iho booh, {whlcd I haire already done (or you in PSYCHO tflB) I wanted to give you some o! my views on both the author, Wi1li<3m Peter Blally, and Ihe style o! horror
their
When one
reads THE EXOHCIST. one is immediafely ripped trom the book and thrusl into Ihe very fabric of the story. Vou are no longer en impartial judge of tyte Mid teChnlquBi but become an active character in a situation dI sheer terror, Anolher eicemple ol hne vrriiing can be found in Slaily's latest publtehed boolc, TWINKLE, TWINKLE, "KILLER" KANE One carl easily draw similarities E>etween THE EXORCIST'S Father Karraa, snd CoUmei Hudson 1. Kane in TWINKLE, TWINKLE ... 11 se^s that Blatly's pen hSB a Hair tor the quiet. Inwardly questioning and dis turbed type of central figure. Quiet, yet inside we see each protagonist tor his true worth each a pillar ot warmth, understanCmg, reserved and resolu'e
and i^namlo
,
,
What IS so unique about THE EXORCIST? Why has I) been such a success? I for one feel that one ol Ihe major reasons tor the sucpss ol the booW and the movie, IS in the type ot horroi that is being brought lo Ihe public THE EXORCIST is gut 'error manjiested m a series of stomach wrenching scenes This is quite opposes to Ihe heady psychological and seemingly sterile terror that Edgar Allan Poe gave us II you feel thai Poe Is Ihe epitome ol REAL horror you should forget rtbout seeing or reading
THE EXORCIST
be-
basest physical form' The thought ot having somein eomrol ol your body of ulcerous sores appearing mysteriously on the face ol havmg your . of being forced .
lts
one
head Iwisled a lull 180 degrees to tear and muliilate your own IS
body— THIS TO ME,
HORRORi
familiar lo us, and what place could be more familiar to most ol the readers than Washington D C The period in lime is also crucial When is this experience lotror supposed to tahe place' The element o! the
m
grotesque seems to weather when J/e find thai our reading molenal is about something thai took place five hundred years ago In THE EXORCIST the time IS NOW horror is multiplied like some ravenous at laast
sion
iti
wandering
il
such d thing as demonic posses-
possible It
of
y.
shadows
thai
piay across your bedroom walls on moan-lit nights . i1 you wanted to recapture Ihe Inghlemng leehngs lhai forced adrenaline through your system when you were a child, then READ and SEE— THE EXORCIST'I
THE EXORCIST (Of
qan
The SDundttack
3 ion
are
9 cDmplele
how
elements
ceiiain
:he!a 13 to my mina. a Ihitd very irr^octanl part 01 any Saoti lim And that is the sound a
IS
uoFii,
unfoclunaiely
to
speak
In efCect rpnily isn t
ihe tilm !uHered It sufiergd
Oc
d
it
13
al least
io
ihmk some-
not
wrong li they heard Henry Manclni s verston 0I the Beatles' Love Me Do' during a John
tfte
1
Hmmm?
the wrong music >s bdd, hawng »o musli: Perhaps
\\
IS
the
cavaliy charge?
type of movie Ihe EnorAt times restful al Itmes moody building biudg>>onmq Even the flow of Ifie aft-uni is perfet tor the Exorcist Proper!* spaCPd there is virtu ally no (hfnci on rUBU! flfl BELLS that woiild not hive til nghi mio tor
Cisl IS
me
Who would
about the Hch
about
thing
Wayne
much
(iynamte
llijng
tnusic ot
lack ot music in the EjorAnd because of (haf lack,
Well
mote
review
this Itie
Esotcis!; rather,
ihe
so
brn
oi the Exorcist woufl have
muiA
of.
(hen.
about
llie
ci^t
thos"
•
foi
BiosB arBOng us who eryoy soundtracks, did not feature any
muBic
beyond me like
entire album know that fl?» vi oua maods of the music could have done nothing but mtroas ed Ihe suspense and horror Ttie musm is soft dynamic everything If II had been used Bpphed properly, the sledge hammer fmeacts and build ups
iiiiiually
EnofCisi,
<a
People who have hear^ (he
The music ot any movie tool of incredible pEopotand can be used lo build any mood, from py 10
Iricli
U
llsli
instruments
ones upon which virtually any mood might be buiH and is buih hy OlaiSeld could possiliiy hinder or lake away from the
order to be cme6 good moutes the Iwo mosl basic, of cDuisB are a solid plol and tolid aclmg Bui beyond ihess,
The
Tubular Bells nnd p'tsus Bistrunienis That is only il's not even
on Side One, and
AUGUSTINE fVUNELL
bv
TViL re in
(acK
of
a
soundlrack
To many myself
worse
is
Includ-
who
r
the
at
bumg
trach
ripped
A number
olt lar
of
my
a eoundacquaint-
ancea hedrd the alaum before saw Ihe movie, as did, end when il .vas over they cuKt-
Ihey
many ways Those
1
1
lew bars from eniilled
sadly
it
tUSULAH
TUBULAR BELLS
1
is
nan named Mtke perhaps ohe of
3 by a
and althouHh the mnvie
written
have featured the
cDutd easily
enlHB ihing
moue
he mosi dramatic pEinIs bu left empty being lorced t.
Ihey heard
if
or not
(iiiln t
you have
to
ad-
piex
soundfracK' Considpr the mslrumnnls played by Oldfield and deride lor yoursolf whether o; not iheir complsihies mdW-
and collewmely, would Grand Piano Glokensple), Bass Gullar
(duHlly
ha/e helped or hmdeted --
""—
FarfisB
Organ,
grealhass of the album, but vjhai good would thai do? 11 there's another music lover out
ed TUBULAR BfcLLS bufwho hBEn 1 seen the movia (ifiare must be someonp su-newhciei) can only warn you that you be getlng no pleasure from the " " don I BKpBc! Iha I
II
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Ihal
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SUSO the SLAUGHTER-SLUDGE THING is on a rampage to DEVOUR THE
WORLD in
its
and
and NOTHING can stand
way
.
.
.
movie review by emotionally-disturbed
PAGE
58
—
film buff
ED FEDORY
"You look upon the face and form of this VAMPIRE and you FREEZE THE BLOOD that surges through
your VEINS
..."
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we've
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.
THING
right
.
entirety
Its
ever feel
be .
.
,
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in
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JOHN MORGAN, KEANSBURG. NEW JERSEY.
of
bit
that s a really
we
every
flattery
then
everyone
like
appreciate
also
a
like
little
now and but we
" . % haven't se^ TAL^S OP TH6 CRYPT m VAULT OF was asked to da HORROR. .
.
the
from MIL-
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.
me
beturaen
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didn't
take
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and
do
.
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.
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one at
.
fte AWAKE here hour, all should Yet someone, is coming up the the ATTIC! WHO? candlelight write the ring of see a hairy, hulking The old woman was
should
home at this ASLEEP!
SOMETHIMG steps
to
WHAT? this light
in
and I
shape!
I
beyond
right! God, save us! The shoggoths attack! Prepare earth for its final battle! They are attacking! No! NO! stay BACKl
Heaven help
l
ED PAHULE
bm
lake SUPERMAlJ - e»ective fn a script bul negligible as a screen character. The Ibnii is
.
M
.
the
(rf
credibility
reai^es a point where it beC(Nn»B t(Ha% unbetiev^ie. My wiMe c^e^ in tMs laea has bran devoted to maktt^ tfia unb^ievafote
beflevable,
and
Ihffl'Gfare Ihis woiiNl be too tij^dievable for me io make b^ievable. This is alrfghi for to read and look at as part of a sfr^, but trying to portray a character ot this hirid ' the. screen woidd striuR "
somebody
hilailous rrtoments . . . particularly u^th the baby sargoyle
think
I
you did )»iiduce
if
a char^ier tike this on the screen and had him by NmseK any menders of fus latnihr I Ihii^ eiren then you're
H^hout
s^^chlns K beyond the
limits
..."
ot total belief
.
.
PSYCHO This
issue. .
.
.
just
thought I'd write you on the latest from the
comment
and
released
things
13
was th^
isn't
actually
return.
weirdest story
.
dead, the
—was
He
PSYCHO GARGOYLES
14
.
issue in Bring
which the HEAP died. him hack. Although the
HORROR-MOOD team. NIGHTMARE 14 and 15. SCREAM 1 and 2, and PSYCHO 13 and .
was one weird
NIGHTMARE.
The in
he
HEAP
best and "the Special
ones that
"...
but otherwise, as
abotit 'Characters',
I
said
just don't
I
think they are bettevsble on the screen, and are better kept in comics, where at (ace value, Ihey are qwte believable ..."
m^ht
l#e'a remarits
tiflr.
indeed
star! a new runnii^ in this column
—ccmlrover^ we'H be
pleased to
your remartis
prirrt
the
best
stories.
I
liked
the
HIPPY CRITTERS ARE COMIN' Ken Kelly's cover was
are adapting viriually all Poe'B works mio iiUrstrateCt It hss been wrcm^ syggesled by many pobliW^ movie companies, and oak would-*?- ad a piers Pi^ of
f
works, that his horror slorle: are not adaptable literacy, anc thai
much must bs added o tor Ihem to be com
changed mercm!
We
.
.
-
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SCREMU
on
#4.
sale
next
was THE DAY THAT DIED. This may be
13th Issue"
SATAN Dreadful
HE .
IS
.
I
print .
.
Dela's
WEIRD
.
best .
.
art
more
can hardly wait 13 DEAD looks weird
vet
of him,
until
THE It
you
THINGS .
.
.
and
this
is
ntMi
----
s origin al a
We
twenty-sav stones, we will adaj Issh twenty-one.
We
are also anty i>ovei THE
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simply fabulous. It rivals all covers of the HORROR MOOD It yet. is only rivalled by NIGHTMARE #15, and SCREAM
to F
must
drive for the HUMAN the drive for
like
are
cool
SLEEP, and BATTLED THE VICIOUS VAMPIRE BATS OF TRANSYLVANIA AND LIVED TO TELL OF IT (I bet you can't say that fast five times) were
Of
^^^^^hm^!^M§iM^^^ii^^»ii'ji:im,mA.i^^-^ .
be the
than the previous issue. The cover story may have been the best, but there were so damn
horror form. feet there ntight be a of unintentionally
bwnd
to be reached to speciaf ettiGls and various e«ier iNn^ Stat are needed in this kirtd of iMcry and the con^ructlon of Hds- MrKi of (Aaracter and H
Ifd
away
even better
For your macabre edificatio these HORROR-MOOD pu"
"
"'
I
fact
MAN-
first
had
iisfiers
deal
ther^y.
.
t
the
is
look
other
PSYCHO *14 was
where they would say "oh well, it is only an actor made up" and I ti)ink cme would lose a
the .
il
Miampie
for
^ur HUMAN GARGOn.ES. in
'THIS
you
j^f^
"IT"
YES-HEAP'
I
la^e number
Hffls
)»'oduc«',
criticism
letter
best story
return the HEAP that he was the
DEAD-SWAMP-THING. wrong first
graal
I
»ie ^isode in TALES F110M o( tile man t^O the proprietor <rt tte fiO^ltal for ti» blind, but there a slight dltferene» of
THE CRYPT was
wfml to play the NIGHT- r^vmAS^X lilMftN QARSOYLE. I don't GRO"^W" fe a psKiwi, f think EARTH'. It b more a "thing", ii is was truly unbelievable. Shog^Sr» la a m^aiine su<A as goth indeed! can't BELIEVE !irei^. H is fine <«Arat ycni draw such atrocious drivel! C^^aofera IMce this, when you malce them Vr&a strip cf^ra^era, WAIT it's 1:00 a.m. No
...
MARE #15 was TESQUE GREEN
One reason you should
.
decide THE CLASSIC CREEPS, THE ARTIST'S OTHER HAND, A MAN WHO DARE NOT
mm ...
a weird
WAUKEE
.
many
1
—
mis
LEE
I
letter
.
GHRISTOPHKR
above story is true. know, because, AM also picked up and NIGHTMARE
#15, whicti were also excellent. Incidentally, you were wrong in stating in NIGHTMARE #14 that the 'other guys' print 14 pages of ads. counted 17 .
Thanks John
.
con^C <^8ract«rs ars too un* beitevaMe on Itw screen . . .
ada^ed
SCREAM #2
nice
re-
.
.
should
that collector!
(our
issue to l^ CHRISTOPHER tEE, who played ilw Hammer DRAGVIA character on Ifie sween tor sa many years, vbo feels
Sobo!^
prodacera Boagnberg nave
rec^tUy, yitf
C'..-,
TAL^
{our f<^\ew
PSYCHO #14) COMICS EDiT<»1IAL in
is
otir
w»
STtU i^i^m aJxMit UTTtE ANNIE FANNY ^so more
screeit. Sirt
.<ffito ttie
[.\'iJL,J3A
.'
E.C. Hoftch'
lUc)
VAULT or HORROH vfew
J-Lj
went on for about a year, till he saw 'NIGHTMARE and 'PSYCHO' on the newsstands. Saying "Baht Sickl", he ignored these two magazines for a year till he had picked up PSYCHO #14. After reading it, he decided, upon seeing NIGHTMARE #14 on the newsstand, to start collecting PSYCHO and NIGHTMARE magazines
the
NIGHIIUIARE #8) and Tt«E
is tn
VAU p-
Ilia-
.
time tl collector who collected only Warren PublicaThis
tions.
<rf
ir^ two movies,
FROM THE CRYPT
J^'^^es, CAPTAIN
III
ftMERiC^*lHf(aS-tl^ACy, BATd "I ROBIN, and a v^iely VTTftUBH Jirere vety [HWtetiaH. MOPs recsnHy BM-ff.t-t^XA ad^9l^ and
SOME-
doing here
was a horror/ine
.
i-mp
one
Is
we've
makes us
il
.
gotta
f^
...S^BRUNS..-
ANP 5HE
... a magaxlne well wwlh everyone's interest is THE HOW AND THEN TIMES' #2 produced by JOHN BALGE and DAVID SIM. and available ter one dollar from: NOW AND THEN TIMES 282 Westmount Road East,
—
FALLS...
1945
.
.
.
was
.
.
.
was
MACABRE'
only story I favorite story.
the
My
like.
think,
.
COMICS
'THE .
.
Ttie 'STRANGE PAINTINGS OF JAY CRUMB; THE TALE OF THE PERFECT CRIME.' 'THE SKELETON IN THE DESERT,' 'HICKORY DICKORY DOCK," 'THIS ARCHAIC BREEDING
JUNGLETOWN
.
plus introducing to you, perhaps lor the
.
#1
I
that
.
.
I
artwork), unpublished work by WAYNE BORING, Jamous SUPERMAN artist, more unpublished artwork by humorist BILL
.
SCREAM
to
... did not like WEIRD COUNTS, BLACK VAMPIRE BATS and LUNATIC HORRORS .
did not
Syd Shores
THOMAS and his SHOWBOAT strips
Now
....
—
Kittiiener, Ontario, Canada. In this extra* ordinary magazine are such features as: an intimate and revealing Interview/ feature/ biography ol the late SYD SHORES (14 pages ot great story and ttever before published
first time, siwerb artists ADRIAN DINGLE and JERRY LAZARE ... an article featuring CASEY BRENNAN and WILL EISNER, HARV. WOLFMAN, STEVE SKEATES, JEFF JONES, STE\m ENGLEHART, and LEN WEHtl
GROUND.' and .
T.
.
SLIME' were The most
story was 'WHERE LIVE!' Zesar's art is
LUNATICS coolest tlons
here Ccngratulaon the most macabre have EVER read. .
issue
first
'I,
HORRtFIC.
.
promising
—
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like
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say ...
we recommend
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appointed
—
NOW
being
After
end
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WAS A VAMPIRE FOR
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in
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best.
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letters/announcement
letter written fay a person who is totally incompetent of thought
—
my
are
the
again, of
I
the greatest" because held me spell bound. Thank you. is
all
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where you printed parts
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it
was for
SCREAM made me SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM with HORROR in my BRAIN. SLIME' 'I,
is
the
story
that
drove
my
favorite story this
i;
.
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INSANE. Thank you for that My family used SCREAM as evidence at the trial and had me committed in the local nut house called HELL. escaped the second day and story.
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I
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DEAD - BUT NOT YET BURIED: EDGAR ALLAN POE by ALAN HEWETSON It wrinen ihat Edgar Allan Poe is America's most is famous man of letters, and surely this is quite true. The argument is in the qualification; should this be?, and in this article and biography, we hope to prove the answer is yes. Edgar Poe, himself a man of 'mystery and imagination', has effected the most profound influence of any American on contemporary literature, through his literary criticisms, poetry, short stories, and by his magazine publishing theories.
MmhN0t
editorship of
Poe's
GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE
in
1841-42
40,000 in a few months, and hence made that magazine the most popular in the United States during that period, and the first magazine in America or Europe to be a 'Mass Circulation Periodical', raised an 3,000 circulation to
His
editorship
of
GRAHAM'S LADY'S AND GENTLESOUTHERN LITERARY. at establishing his own
MAN'S MAGAZINE and THE MESSENGER, and his attempts
EJipr Allan
fof
magazines THE STYLUS and THE PENN MAGAZINE, are required studies for any serious student of magazine publishing
today.
in his own time, for his poetry and but we tn 1973 revere Poe for quite works ... his horror stories, which though numbering only twenty-seven in total, have associated
Poe was famous literary criticism,
different
name with horror to the extent that it is legitimately he 'invented' horror. He certainly did, and in the
Poe's felt
process
certain
other
types
of story
now
popular.
By
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET, and THE GOLD BUG he unquestionably defined the modern detective story. Before these works, such method and form were unknown. By THE
NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON! PYM OF NANTUCKET
FOUND IN A BOTTLE, and several others, he defined the modern adventure story. Before his work and THE MS.
on these stories this type of characterization and plot development was unknown. By his tales THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER and THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, to name only a few, he invented and perfected not only the modern horror story, but quite fantastically also 'horror'
itself.
Edgar Allan Poe lived a wretched and unhappy life, in his everyday life â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in his domestic and business affairs - he was a dismal failure. He could not 'get along' whatsoever with his fellow man. His much exploited relations with women, particularly during the latter part of his life, were nothing more than a hapless craving for human companionship and respect. In fact he was probably impotent, but certainly towards the close of his life, during these mad affairs, he was depressed and erratic, his body was in great physical pain, and he was bordering on manic depression. At various times during his life he used certain opiates, and throughout was a victim of alcohol.
Much
has been made of Edgar Allan Poe's drinking The truth is not that he drank excessively, but little was too much', for he was unable to take even a little alcohol without a complete change of personality, and any excess was accompanied by physical prostration. This illness has wrongly been called habits.
thai 'even a
"Lord help
my
poor
intemperaleness victim to drink,
which is unfair, for he was more and was never known to enjoy it.
a
Edgar Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809, the son of theafrical parents. His father, David Poe, died ttie following year, and Elizabeth Poe was left to support her two sons, Edgar Allan and William Henry, and daughter Rosalie, by her stage career. She was popular, possessed of beauty and a good voice, but was not a physically strong woman, and in the summer of 1811 she died of pneumonia In Richmond, Virginia, in dire poverty. The three children were laken in by relatives, Edgar - by the John Allans of Richmond. This was disastrous, so retrospect shows, for John Allan and the boy were never to get along together. Poe grew up in Richmond with a romantic outlook on the Old South; he characterized this in his writings and criticisms, and as an adult he regarded himself as a 'southern gentleman'.
He was somewhat spoiled by
his foster mother, but his who once enjoyed Edgar's precocious and romantic ways, raised him with great discipline. When Poe was 6 years old, the family moved to Scotland and England for five years, where the boy's schooling was religious and rigid. His first writings, a 'volume of verses', was completed in 1824 when Edgar was 15 -
foster father,
although childish, their style was characteristic of his work, written in tragic and satirical rhymes. He was a good student, brilliant in languages, and an accomplished swimmer and broad jumper.
later
was
Physically, Poe
head and deep
handsome, with
quite
a
fond regard
for
his origins,
a
high fore-
he was slightly
eyes;
attractive
five feet eight inches in height,
built,
and shy-looking. He had and always wore black
or dark clothes, which he admitted were theatrical; in Poe projected a theatric image in all his public fact,
doings. it in this background that led Poe to turn to which he might appear more suited? The answer perhaps begins in 1826, when he was enrolled at the University of Virginia. From that moment, it seems, his life became an endless hardsh p of bitter introspection and moroseness. Poe was thrown out of university, owing $2,500 in gambling debts, loans, liquor bills and unpaid tuition fees.
What was
horror, rather than the romantic poetry to
He enlisted in the Army in 1829 under the assumed name Edgar A. Perry, giving his age as twenty-two, although he was actually eighteen, and was assigned to duty in Boston and subsequently in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina (which later served as his source, material for his short story: THE GOLD BUG). Poe reconciled with his foster father, having been successful and having attained the rank of regimental sergeant-major, and to be sent to West Point Military Academy. John Allan paid a friend of Poe's seventy-five dollars to serve out the remainder of his enlistment term.
begged
At West out
for
orders',
Point, in 1831,
Poe cut
'gross
neglect of
which
referred,
in
classes
duty'
and
fact,
to
and was kicked 'disobedience of drinking and
his
gambling.
come what may his and he began to write future lay in a extensively. During the next few years he travelled in Europe, experiencing dire poverty. In 1834 John Allan d ed, leaving money to everyone except Poe, who was drastically in need of funds 1o support himself. He was bemg published, and was gaining quite a reputation, but his publishers were giving him next to nothing for During
this year,
Poe decided
literary
fatifld in a
6nadM
csnd^lon
in
the Âťtree)s
and hospitaihsd He died Sunday, Octaber
of-lm^D^B^ 7,
ti^^Juti^,'
-was buri9d in the graveyard of Wcitminstw: ^^^i^'' wiiere taday a mentorial sIKqdft ^ , .^. ,, - -,^'^Âťi>7i-^J
that
career,
his works. He could never understand why it was he was being paid so little, when others he felt less accomplished were earning sizeable salaries. His various publishers, with whom he invariably established a frierKlly relationship, knew that Poe was a desperate
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poem THE RAVEN,
MIRROR,
J833 Poe first gained recognition, when he won a $50 for the best short story submitted to the BALTIMOR-E SATURDAY VISITOR. The tale was THE MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLE. As a result he befriended T. White, the editor of the SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER, to which Poe began to contribute. In 1835 he b came editor of that magazine, and he quickly provf himself an 'inspired' editor. During that same year, Poe Clem Did COU! ried his thirl ind the author's future seemed bright. By 1836 he had published eighty-three reviews, six poems, four essays, and three stories in the MESSENGER, and his salary we $1,000 a year. his successes wer Throughout the next several years, inevitably and tragically spoiled. His wife becam tubercular end he took to drink and opium living variously in a farmhouse at 84th Street and Broadv in New York, and in Baltimore and Richmond. He \ at times employed as editor of GRAHAM'S LADY'S AN: GENTLBVtAN'S MAGAZINE, as co-editor of BURTON'; GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, and as contributor to THE In
prize of
NEW YORK
MIRROR,
the
DOLLAR NEWSPAPER,
NEW YORK
SUN, THE AMERICAN REVIEW, and finally 1845 he became editor of the BROADWAY JOURNAL, which he eventually came to own. In this paper he published and republished most of his material, and became a well known literary figure, meeting Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, engaging in published arguments with the poet Longfellow, and frequently in
giving lectures or readings in. the 'salons' of the day. The magazine died In 1846, as a result of his debt, bad health, poverty, his wife's declining health, and his own dissipation.
Poe, his wife, and mother-in-law, retired to the country, in January of 1847, Virginia died. A friend of Poe's witnessed her death at .a cottage in Fordham, on the outskirts of New York. Virginia, ill with tuberculosis
where
of the lungs, was 'lying on the floor on a straw mattress with her husband's overcoat wrapped around her as a
blanket, clutching to her chest for warmth a large cat. Poe and her mother were holding her hands and feet to impart warmth to them'.
Upon most a
death, Poe's life entered its final and phase. Engaging in lawsuits, chasing after women, habituating opium parlors, of epileptic fits, found wandering in the
his wife's
tragic
number
victimized
by
streets
delirium
in
intoxicated,
or
caught during
an
money, and invariably falling back on his ways every time he was rescued or rehabilitated by friends, his last days were scarred by depression and melancholy. Occasional flashes of his genius surelection 'repeat voting' for
faced as he wrote his last works, poems dedicated to his female admirers, such as ANNABEL LEE and EL DORADO.
On
the 3rd of October,
1849, Poe was found
in
the
of
streets
Baltinnore
in
a
'pitiable
condition'
(he
was
semiconscious, stretched out on a plank over some barrels on a sidewalk), and was taken to hospital where he fell into a comma, succeeded by delirium, tremors, and rantings which continued several days. On October 7, as his doctor looked on, he became still for a moment, uttered his last and famous words, "Lord help my poor soul", and died.
He was buried two days Cemetery in Baltimore.
later
in
the
Presbyterian
The argument about Poe's contribution to literature conFrom 1845 he has been regarded in England and and tinues even today.
France as a genius, States' most important literary genius. in
In
as the
United
France,
owing
principally to Baudelaire's brilliant translations, Poe has enjoyed the reputation of having 'an influence greater than that of any other person writing in English'.
the
In
self
of that latter remark, by a noted French are delighted that Poe chiefly expressed himhorror stories, giving his medium a beginning
light
we
critic,
in
never rivalled told
horror
In
the first
in
for the
imaginative audacity. His tales, usually person singular, are precedent today 'horror' writer. Every mood and
works of every
every scheme is
his;
in horror is his. Every character-type in the Invention of the 'twisf-ending' is hts; stories (short and usually
even the length of horror blunt)
is
his.
We owe
Edgar Poe everything. We, as one, recognize Poe invented modern horror, deny him nothing, accord him everything. Edgar Allan Poe is dead but not yet buried.
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NOSFERATU ing
is
ED FEDORY
undoubtedly one of the outstandall time. This 1922 silent,
horror films of
terror-classic
captures
masterpiece of atmospheric cinema
many
of the qualities lost in
MODERN
vampire movies.
When
director F. W. Murnau decided to bring the FIRST adaptation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA knew the importance of and ATMOSPHERE. You look upon the face and form of his vampire and you freeze to the silver screen, he
MOOD
the blood thai surges through your veins!
While Hollywood consistently throws 'pretty' Counts and Barons our way, NOSFERATU stands atone as the most singular and hideous 'bloodsucker' ever created! This UNDEAD menace, (portrayed in a superb and ghastly manner by Max Von Schreck) does not kill his victims by one mere pair of fang punctures NO like some grotesque leech in human form, he .
.
.
,
.
,
saps the life-blood of his prey over a long period of time.
As a character study of the vampire, NOSFERATU accomplishes a great deal of what Murnau intended the viewer to sense and see, (in the movie, it is hard to tell whether the vampire â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Graf Orlok - is more interested in -BLOOD, or WOMEN; but, let's save THIS for the finale). In current vampire-lheme movies, we find the LEECH to be driven off by a whole assortment of paraphernalia; crosses, the Host, holy water, garlic, mirrors, and so on. Graf
UNDEAD
Orlok's deterrent, however, is the supernatural powers of LOVE! When a real estate agent, (in version, called NUTTER) is about to have his blood 'let' by Graf, Hutter's wife (Ellen) awakes in Bremen, England SCREAMING HYSTERICALLY! Graf Orlok then retreats, robbed of a victim ... by LOVE, this
NOSFERATU, Graf Orlok, realizes that his supply of 'nourishment' is running low, and that the townsfolk are getting just a LITTLE suspicious. He decides to stalk a new crop of crimson food. When Ellen is confronted by the grotesque presence of Orlok, she does not withdraw, or coil in fear. Instead, she FLIRTS with him, and delays his returning to his coffin until the death giving rays of the sun slay him! I
would recommend
terror to classic of
this 63 minute journey into any student of horror films. Truly, a CLAMMY atmosphere and EVIL!
"NOSFERATU is a 63 minute journey into terror", starring MAX SCHRECK as the undead menace, directed by F. W. MURNAU .
.
.
it
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...WEUI-...RE5T IN PEACE,ANywAy...
OUR TALE
IS NOT ABOUT yott GENTLEMEN^ IT'S ABOUT THE WORLD OF THE STILL-LIVINS...THE MEN WHO WILL GO OUT TOMORROW TO PISH, 50M.E FOR FOOD. SOME AS A LURID KIND OF SP08T...I^9 SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HUMAN BEINeS,A CERTAIN ELEMENT OF SeEfSMUST ENTER THE 5TDRy...S«ffiO ENTERS
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NEXT MORNING THEY
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PROPER CHRlSTiAN
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COME ENTER.. .ENTER THE PJTo? MUSIC MADNESS... WHERE UNDERGROUND ROCK AND HARD ROCK ARE UNHEARD OF. WHERE THE LVRICS BELONG TO ANOTHER TIME SOMETIME TOMORROW... ...
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A TIME THAT
IS
DEAD...
FOR THOSE WHO PLAY THE SAD SONSS OF PROPHECY THEREIN KNOW THERE /S NO TOMORROW... THEY SAW IT WHEN THEY DIED IN WAYS TOO BRUTAL TO BE ANYTHING BUT SUICIDE... THEY TRIPPED... AHPFEU ...AND ONLY WHEN DEAD DID THEY REAbZE THEY HAD NO TOMORROW. .
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...TOO LATE FOR THEM... THO NOT FOR US... THIS THEY KNOW... AND THAT'S WHY IN A LITTLE
BASEMENT P1TINTHE VILLAGE IN NEWYORK. THE/ SINS THE SONSS OF
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OUR TALE OUR WAIL./
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A SKYWALD HORROR-MOOD MAGAZINE
- EDITED BY ALAN HEWETSON NUMBER 17 MARCH 1974 COVER ARTISTt FABA CONTRIBUTORS: BORRELL CARDONA COLLADO DE LA ROSA DOMINGO EMILiO ED FEDORY AUGUSTINE FUNNELL JANE LYNCH MARO NAVA EDGAR ALLAN POE RICARDO VILLAMONTE this issue...
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to these fitting then that our stories this issue are in a slightly light-hearted vein (to eubstain the high delight of this extraordinary experience} . . . you'll also note that ALL the MOODAWKWARD TEAM writers are in this showcase issue Emotionally .disturbed ED FEDORY AUGUSTINE FUNNELL and our brand new gal jaundiced JANE Archaic At .-.-, LYNCH . . therefore we take pleasure in turning our letters/ editorial pages this issue into a PLEASURE -PREVIEW of some . and we DO have a fot of new of the weird things to come . MAGAZINE in the SPRING of things on the way, like a 74 .. .THE TOMB OF HORROR ... watch for B! .. artists
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weird that
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it?
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of the Asylum right before our eyes?
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HAP«OUM»ME lOMURpeK MY WM...ANP WHOSE WFOKAVH6 YQK£ NOW COHS!GNEP<W£ TO THE MMGMAM,&BH AS I HAP COMfftGMEP ...WHO
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wrrmu my wife's tomb... ... THEBLACK CAT is a delightful little taie of terror about'the reincarnation of a black cat {no.his name Is not NARD!) Into various- murdering and devious guises -r Entombed EDGAR ALLAN POE is the author of this masterpiece illustrated by RANCID RICARDO VILIAMONTE -r- about the cat called PLUTO and his revenge '...' /.'; upon his master ... \'l :
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v/AHY lAHGtBie FORM...
short
,
,
,
masterpiece of the macby artist RICARDO VILLA-
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details
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story
HAPPY NEW YEAR
y'all
JVrchaic al.
and the
MOOD-TEAM
.
.
THfSI5YCHiR0F&*' NAME IS SAW HAMMER, MY PARTNER IS ED SATURDAY/ ON THIS QW WE MET AT 8:50 A.M. ANP HEADED FOR THE OFFICE... ON THE WAY W SPOTTEP A LICENCE THAT HAD AN AP6- ON IT.
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WORK MERE... I'MACOR-.THE STORY >0U ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS TRUE, ONLY MY NAME ISCHANS6D FOR SOME REASON OR OTHER... THIS STORY IS ABOUT THE WORST PAY IN MY LIFE... CALIFORNIA... I
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WE GAVE CHASE.
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..H:24 A.M...
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INTO THE CITY
IN
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ED,
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CRIMINALS THREW HIM INTO ONE OF THEIR MACHINES AND HE WASATORTALLYWOUNOED...
...A
BATTLE ENSUED
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„.4:H RM....I WAS FEELING MUCH BETTER NOW THAT I HAP MADE A GOO D ARREST FOR THE CW, AND BROKE FOR LUNCH... I OPENED ED'S R4CKED-LUNCH (HE DIDN'T NEED IT ANYMORE AND I DIDN'T WAN TOOOD CORNED ___FTOSOTOWASTE.'/J...THAT'S WHEN 'STRANSE' THINGS STARTED TO HAPPEN .
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WRETCHED MST.
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HEADED FOR YESTERDAY.
IT'S
SEEN YEARS
SINCE I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT MY
I
H/SH SCHOOL DAYS.
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WASN'T VERY POPULAR. THEN...
HOW SOME OF
PUT ME DOWHf/m
THOSE KIDS
HAD TAUNTED HIM. WALTER FLASHES SACK TO HUMILIATING EXPERIENCE OFHIS YOUTH...
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YES, THEY
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