A new edition of Haunted Horror from IDW Publishing features horror tales from the pre-code 1950s, nicely assembled in hardcover.
Edited by Craig Yoe (Yoe Books), Clizia Gussoni, and Steve Banes, this book gathers issues 19, 20 and 21 of the Haunted Horror series from 2015. These comics reprint some fun, eccentrically creepy tales. It’s all about characters who are up to no good. But the fun part is that the drawings are deliberately strange. Gravediggers with exaggerated features. Kids who don’t look ‘wholesome’. Old people with wrinkles on their wrinkles. Fun, I tell ya.
The stories are magnetically miserable. And the art is by some well-known names (Alex Toth, Bernard Baily, Rudy Palais, for example) and many that aren’t so well known. The colouring, likely the original colouring from the ’50s with very minimal retouching, is a blast. Panels in green, pink, yellow, blue. There is no such thing as subtlety in this stuff, bub. It’s all horror, 24/7.
Plus, there’s an introduction by IDW’s founder, Ted Adams, and full creator credits on each story, whenever they are known. And there ya have it! Happy creepy reading!!
IDW Publishing, Haunted Horror “Cry From the Coffin”, $24.99 for 158 pages. Not rated
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