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Pinup of the Week: Strange Stories February 1939

Strange Stories 1939 02 February

Yes I’m still alive and kicking. Sorry for the lack of reviews lately. I’ve been working on other projects and it’s been cutting into my time spent creeping around in attics and luring poor orphans into the kind of situation pictured above.

This picture delightfully illustrates another one of those situations that happens to me: All. The. Time.

You just never know when you’re going to run into a pair of inbred, head-hunting, Siamese twin, hick brothers who also happen to be members of a rabid red cowl wearing secret society. Let me tell you that every time this happens to me, one of the brothers is ALWAYS missing at least one of this front teeth. They will ALWAYS be found dancing around a giant cursed gem with a head on a stick and terrorizing a redhead who happens to be wearing a crown she just uncovered in a South American archeological dig. And a tube top. My life is that awesome.

IN THIS ISSUE
THE SINGING SHADOWS
A Novel of Weird Enslavement
By VINCENT CORNIER

THE CURSE
OF THE
HOUSE
A Story of
Witchcraft’s Labyrinth

By ROBERT
BLOCH

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Pinup of the Week: The Moth by Joy Carroll 1974

One of the best things about visiting small towns is venturing into the horror section and finding unknown gems like this one. Ah yes, supernatural romance novels are nothing new. What a cover!!! What an inside blurb:

IF I DIE WHEN I’M YOUNG
I VOW I’LL COME BACK TO HAWKWOOD.
I’LL BE A SPIRIT,
AND MAKE PEOPLE DO TERRIBLE THINGS.
DO YOU BELIEVE ME, KATE,
DO YOU BELIEVE?

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Pinup of the Week: Amazing Stories June 1948

Amazing Stories 1948 June

I certainly am having fun making up captions for these pictures…

“Great news guys. Every single one of these icicles on this planet contains a beautiful girl! And with any luck, none of them will speak English!”

“Now Bernie, remember when we had that argument about what color you mean when you call someone ginger? THIS is ginger!”

“I don’t know… Maybe… Maybe somewhere on this planet lives a man so horrible that all these women’s hearts turned to ice and froze them like this, forever! Maybe that man is me. I’m not perfect. She does look a little familiar.”

ICE CITY of the GORGON
by RICHARD S. SHAVER and CHESTER S. GEIER

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Pinup of the Week: Dime Mystery May 1940

Dime Mystery 1940 05

Looks like one of the main goals of these red hooded secret society types in 1940 involved mummifying beautiful women. See here for a cover with almost the same subject. It took them four months to get her wrapped up, and it looks like Smith retired. His younger ex-pirate acolyte has taken the reins. Good luck to you, gentlemen.

GIRLS FOR
SATAN’S BIRDCAGE
FASCINATINGLY DIFFERENT
MYSTERY-TERROR NOVELETTE BY

HARRISON STORM

SPINE-TINGLING
MYSTERY NOVELETTE

BEWARE THE
BONELESS DEATH!
by WYATT BLASSINGAME

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Pinup of the Week: Ten Detective Aces May 1935

So many potential captions for this picture. The mind boggles:

“But Mr. Withers, when you suggested tying me up, I thought we were going to have a little fun!”

***

“Margorie! Why must I keep finding you in these situations?”

***

Professor Smith became certain that there was only one, last, desperate way to get his daughter out of… The Museum of DEATH!

***

“I’ll only tell you one more time! Don’t bother until you’re ready give me an honest apology.”

***

“My stars! There’s a cookie recipe written on the inside of this lid, and it looks great!”

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THE
SILVER
SPECTRE
“Moon Man”
Novel

By
FREDERICK
C. DAVIS

***

And
Nine
Other
Complete
Detective Aces

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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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