Category: Horror
Love Comics? Love Horror? Brace Yourself…
Did you have plans for this long weekend?
Yeah, those might be about to change.
Enter The Horrors of it All. This is easily one of my favourite blogs, and has been for years. It’s probably the best source of Pre-Code horror comic scans.
What does Pre-Code mean?
“Horror comics of the 1940s and early 1950s are often called ‘pre-Code’ horror in reference to the Comics Code Authority, a censoring board that was created in response to Dr. Fredric Wertham’s book Seduction of the Innocent and the subsequent public outcry against crime and horror comics. Since violent, gory and lurid content were what made pre-Code horror comics great, the stifling effect of censorship resulted in bland comics that didn’t sell. The horror comic market was dead, killed by the Code.” (from samuelsdesign.com)
Pre-Code is the good stuff. Monsters, murderers and the macabre await you in these pages. And The Horrors of it All actually provides full-page, full-story panels in all their delicious retro glory.
If you’re anything like me, you hated the chipper wholesomeness of Archie and gang, and thrived on comic blood and guts instead. This impeccably-maintained blog is worth a visit.
Happy Easter Slash Long Weekend
Emphasis on the slash.
Has anyone seen this?
The Monstrous Dolls of Shain Erin
Hauntingly beautiful. See more here.
(May be reproduced only with Creative Commons License, available here.)
What Are YOU Lookin’ At?
Nothing to see here, just washing my car. Move along.
Mmm, Braaaaaaains…
braaaaaaains by xsomnis on flickr
“Red velvet raspberry cake with
French vanilla cream cheese frosting and a chocolate brain”
Disappointing Monsters
You like horror.
You like comics.
You’ll like Disappointing Monsters. Why? Because it’s fucking awesome.
Created by my buddy Owen Mackinder and my new pal Daniel Bradford, this comic has everything your dark little heart could want. Cthulhu. Pennywise the Dancing Clown. A snow fort with murder holes.
As my husband says, it’s a lot like Calvin and Hobbes…if Hobbes was a zombie.
(click for big)
New comics on Mondays, click here to read from the start.
Horror in Porcelain: the Dolls of Jessica Harrison
This ain’t your Grandma’s knickknack. Unless your Grandma’s awesome.
Artist Jessica Harrison buys old porcelain figures and repurposes them: adds some guts here, slices a throat there. The result? Not something you’re gonna see on the Shopping Network anytime soon.
More butchered beauties at JessicaHarrison.co.uk.
(via Bored Panda)
Real-Life Horror: Lobotomy
This video is disturbing. Watch with caution.
I have a notoriously strong stomach, and this made me feel ill. There’s something…sacred about the brain, about what makes “us”, “us”. The idea of someone manipulating your very self with something so everyday as an icepick is terrifying to me.
It happened to Rosemary Kennedy, JFK’s younger sister.
“We went through the top of the head, I think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch.” The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. “We put an instrument inside,” he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman put questions to Rosemary. For example, he asked her to recite the Lord’s Prayer or sing “God Bless America” or count backwards. … “We made an estimate on how far to cut based on how she responded.” … When she began to become incoherent, they stopped. (Kessler, The Sins of the Father, p. 226, via Wikipedia.)
Lobotomies are still performed as a treatment in certain debilitating mental illnesses.
There are greater horrors in life than I could ever hope to write.
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