Erotica, fantasy, and horror writer.
He was brave to the last, but this didn’t save him… from unlife, that is. (Art by Roman Chaliy)
Most horror comics of the 1950s are nostalgic rather than horrifying, yet every once in a while I come across an image that is truly startling in its rawness. They were the decade’s way of dealing, sociologically, with the repressed horrors of WWII.
The Cecaelia is an octopoid mermaid who, instead of having a fish’s tail, has the arms of an octopus. The villain of Disney’s The Little Mermaid was one. (X-Ray Art by Benedetta Bonichi)
The cultured alien lifeform had an innocuous beginning, but a bloody end.
Returning last week from a trip to Florida, I have to say the highlight of my trip was seeing, at last, Kennedy Space Center. For a child of my generation this was a place that gained its initial familiarity on B&W TV screens (or color, in wooden consoles, if you were well-off or indulgent) with …
Not all the great pachyderms became extinct. Some turned into ghouls. (Dumbo by Austen Mengler)
This is one out-of-body experience that must not be repeated. (Art by Shintaro Kago)
Appearing as a wild horse flayed alive, the Nuckalavee is the most horrible of all the demons of the Scottish islands. Its name may be the origin of “Old Nick” a moniker often used for Satan. (Art by Ambersandj on Deviantart.com)