The Thing From Beyond!

 

Another visit to the Digital Comic Museum, and, och, would ye believe it..we've found another wee tale set in bonnie Scotland! It's always great to find spooks in my homeland, and this tale comes from Star Publications' Blue Bolt Weird Tales, Issue 112, dated February 1952..and was uploaded to the museum by movielover so thanks to them for allowing us to read it!

Wow....I hope nothing like this happens to me! I have loads of old Scottish ancestors who probably owned creepy old castles, and definitely a few who would be likely to be haunting them...and if they want me to face up to sucha challenge it could be tricky. Not because I'm scared, but because just getting up from the couch seems to put my back out these days! 😂 Still, that was a fun wee story, even if Jim did call us Scotchmen instead of Scotsmen....which is enough to lock him up in a dungeon for several hundred years by itself!

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Well, I hope you enjoyed that...and wow, I just looked at the date...only 10 more days to go! How did this happen? It feels like we're only just getting started!! You'd better hurry along to the Countdown Hub and absorb as much Halloween horror as you possibly can by checking the other Cryptkeepers' offerings! Get clicking that badge..or head straight over to Me and You and a Blog Named Boo, who has been taking a look at a spooky episode of Laverne and Shirley!

Even More Halloween Cards

 

Another long day that got away from me, so have some more Halloween cards!

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Be sure to go check out what everyone else has been up to...just click the badge below and you'll go straight to the Countdown to Halloween Hub, where you'll find a list of all the participants...Like Professor D who has a groovy Halloween Music Mix for you to listen to!

Horror Stars Haunt My Blog in a Trio of Horror Film Documentaries!

Tonight I decided to go on a hunt for some horror documentaries and found a trio that I felt were worth sharing with you all!

First up is a look at the Universal Horror films in general with Universal Horror (1998) which is narrated by Kenneth Branagh and featuring Ray Bradbury, Sara Karloff, Fay Wray and others talking about how the classic monster movies were made....

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Next up is Behind The Scenes - Bride of Frankenstein, a look at how that particular film came to be!

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And finally we have The Man Behind Universal's Classic Monsters | Bonus Feature Spotlight, a documentary about make-up artist Jack Pierce!

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Hope you enjoy those if/ when you get round to watching them....and remember to go see what everyone else taking part in the Countdown is up to by clicking the badge below...like the Classic Horrors Club, who has been uploading reviews, discussions, and more at their Youtube Channel...here's a quick taste!

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Halloween School Book Club (Pt. 4) - The Make Your Own Creepy Spooky Horrors Book

Here's another book that I picked up from the school book club, to further prove the point that Hallowen has always been a year round thing for me!

This 1984 book by John Dineen is yet another that had me rummaging through cabinets and cupboards throughout the house, looking for the ingredients I needed to try out the many ideas within it's pages...

I think most people reading this will have madea pipe-cleaner spider at some point in their lives, but perhaps quite a few less will have made a dead rat, as featured below....

I definitely butchered a few pilfered onions from the kitchen cupboard trying to make these eyeballs below....and probably shed a tear or two as I cut them up and tried to add those little pupils...

And what 7-year-old kid obsessed with hottor films wouldn't jump at the chance to create their very own zombie to leave lying around the house trying to freak out their parents??? 

For years, I was obsessed with trying to put together the ultimate Halloween party, but for some reason, after my 6th birthday and around the time I would have picked up this book, I would struggle to get anyone to come all the way out into the sticks to have another party until I turned 16, by which time I was more interested in what music was playing!

That didn't stop me from trying out all these ideas in preparation though.....

Especially the horror food...any excuses to make snacks into terrifying creatures or severed limbs, and freaky deaky little me would be right there!

Again, I've tried not to include every page so there's still a few surprises if you decide to pick up the book yourselves, but I hope you enjoyed the pages I posted here...and as the back page of the book itself says...."Now you can have Halloween all year round - if you dare!"

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Doctor Horror!!

Something a little different again from today's trip to the Digital Comic Museum, as I find another horror story in a non-horror comic! This comes from the pages of Captain Battle No.2, published by New Friday Publications way back in the fall of 1941....

Wow...so even if man can't defeat pure evil, if this tale is anything to go by, we can always rely on nature itself to sort things out if it gets out of hand!

Perhaps not as scary or freaky a story as normal that one, but I thought it would be an interesting look at a comic strip that appeared before the horror comic boom in the '50s! Thanks to Rolster who uploaded the comic to the museum for us to take a look at....

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Sorry for the no-show yesterday, but I had the return of some horrendous toothache which I'm hoping to fend off until I can get to November when I have a pre-arranged visit my dentist, my very own Doctor Horror....I'm not looking forward to it as it's a wisdom tooth with a cavity!

Anyway, hopefully it'll stay manageable, and I'll see you back here tomorrow...in the meantime, click the button below to be whisked off to the Countdown Hub where you can check out what the other Cryptkeepers have been up to... like My Enduring Bones who has been taking some night shots with their camera in a spooky old cemetery!