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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

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DANCE
IN DEATH’S
CABARET
by RUSSELL GRAY

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EDITH AND EJLER JACOBSON
*
DONALD DALE
*
RALSTON SHIELDS

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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 July 1939

Terror Tales July Aug 1939

Just then: Tinkerbell. In the middle of the air!

SLAVES
FOR THE
WINE GODDESS
EERIE MYSTERY – TERROR NOVELETTE
by RUSSELL GRAY

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THE MONSTER IS HUNGRY!
by WYATT BLASSINGAME

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Pinup of the Week: Weird Tales February 1927

Weird Tales February 1927

The last time I found myself in this situation, I was like: “Again? REALLY!?!”

THE MAN
WHO CAST
NO SHADOW
by Seabury Quinn

Cover by C. Barker Petrie, Jr.

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Pinup of Last Week: The Hell Cat – 1934

Lobby Poster for The Hell Cat, 1934

NOTHING COULD TAME HER – except LOVE!

A headline which deserves a groan. Here is where I would normally say, “This is my kind of lady.” But today I’m not so sure. Maybe this shows my age, but I think that I’m more the kind of monster who prefers to be slowly poisoned, rather than feeling like my love is a daily dance with an enraged lion tamer. Maybe if she had snakes for hair. Maybe.

You can tell it’s the early ’30s by the eyebrows and the amount of bleach that has been applied (not to mention the dress – rowr). One of my least favorite things about movie posters and book covers of this era? They were often more lurid than what they promoted, and I would guess that this is the case with The Hell Cat, unless this among the last of the movies that squeaked in before the Hays Code grew teeth in 1934.

P.S. The original of this beautiful lobby poster can be bought for 1500 clams on eBay, here.

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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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