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Pinup of the Week: Horror Stories December 1939

Horror Stories December 1939

Ah ha ha yes dear reader, ANOTHER ‘girl in a jar‘ pulp cover. This one has our hero mashed in there with her, and our menacing friend there seems to be timing how long it takes for the rope to burn through. He must have worse OCD than I do. That’s compulsive.

Twenty! Twenty seconds so far! Ah! Ah! Ah! I love counting doomed seconds!”

Meanwhile in his left hand, he’s got a bricklayer’s trowel. And there are dates on the jar, on the brass plaque: “1939 – 3439″. Up nearer the top, the jar says “TIME CAPSULE”, unless I’m mistaken. I hope he’s not too addled to realize that these two aren’t going to stay fresh until 3439. That’s a perfectly good blonde he’s wasting!

If you blur your eyes you can see Felix the Cat in this cover. See his head? It’s the shadow on the mad scientist’s red shirt. Either that or I’ve been staring at this too long…

GIRLS FOR THE
CORPSE CLAN
A BLOOD-CHILLING HORROR NOVEL
by DANE GREGORY

***

DANCE
IN DEATH’S
CABARET
by RUSSELL GRAY

***

EDITH AND EJLER JACOBSON
*
DONALD DALE
*
RALSTON SHIELDS

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Pinup of the Week: Strange Stories April 1939

Strange Stories 1929 04 April

I love how many different genres are wrapped up in this one picture. First off, I see some definite x-ray radioactivity and mad scientist action going on. Next up, there’s a headless lady mummy body there on the left. To go with the mummy body, we’ve got an Egyptian headdress with a snake on top there next to the radio set the red-cowled secret society member is playing with there. It could be my imagination, but is that Egyptian headdress on a stylized raven head? Finally, we’ve got the grotesque mad scientist assistant. Did I mention dials and knobs? This picture has got some dials and knobs!

13 COMPLETE
STORIES IN
THIS ISSUE!

FEATURING
CURSED BE
THE CITY
A Complete Novelet of
Inhuman Bondage

By HENRY
KUTTNER

AUGUST W. DERLETH * FRANK B LONG, JR. * RALPH MILNE FARLEY
MARK SCHORER * ROBERT BLOCH * C.L. MOORE * TALLY MASON
DR. DAVID H. KELLER * KIETH HAMMOND * AMELIA REYNOLDS LONG

Pinup of the Week: Spicy Mystery Stories November 1936

Spicy Mystery 1936 11 November

“I MUST HAVE
5 CORPSES!”
by
Robert Leslie Bellem

File this under ineffective ways to distract the grim reaper and thus escape his grip: Rub yourself up against him in a slinky red dress.

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Pinup of the Week: Terror Tales January 1936

Terror Tales 1936 01

Maybe investigating that noise in the attic wasn’t the best thing to do, during the dinner party you’re hosting. How will you ever explain this to Mrs. Fielding? Don’t worry, dear, Harpo is distracting her anyways.

DAUGHTERS OF
THE PLAGUE
A TERROR NOVEL YOU’LL REMEMBER
by HUGH B. CAVE

WYATT
BLASSINGAME
PAUL ERNST
NORVELL PAGE
FRANCIS JAMES

Pinup of the Week: Horror Stories October 1939

Horror Stories October November 1939

“Sheesh!” You say as you slap your forehead. “Just how many of these crazy ‘girl in a jar‘ pulp covers can there be in the world?” The answer might just startle you. OK. OK. I’m just pulling your leg. There aren’t enough to startle anybody. More like just enough to make a person certain that it’s a meme of the age we’re talking about. This one happens to be by one of my favorite cover artists, who I suspect was John Drew, but who I call “Goldie” after the same girl who shows up over and over in the covers.

Great titles all around here:

GIRLS ENSLAVED
IN GLASS
EXCITING MYSTERY-HORROR
NOVEL BY

RUSSELL
GRAY

TWO NOVELETTES OF EERIE MENACE
MEAT FOR SATAN’S
ICEBOX
by FRANCIS JAMES

* AND *

I STEAL
YOUR BLOOD
by DANE GREGORY

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The flying monkeys let our technician out for a minute and he snuck away into the light of day. Thanks for your patience during this difficult transition.
I ated Tinkerbell.

Fhtagn Spoken Here.

... the attic, a vast raftered length lighted only by small blinking windows in the gable ends, and filled with a massed wreckage of chests, chairs, and spinning-wheels which infinite years of deposit had shrouded and festooned into monstrous and hellish shapes.
The Shunned House
H.P. Lovecraft




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