Gray Morrow's Mad House Covers

Archie Comics usually is known for light humor, but for three issues in the 1970s, Mad House became a horror anthology under the Red Circle brand!  

Artist Gray Morrow provided the covers for Mad House #95 (September, 1974), Mad House #96 (November, 1974) and Mad House #97 (January, 1975).

The stories featured monsters, zombies, vampires, demons, gypsies, and more to get you in a Halloween mood.  

Stores were written by Don Glut, Marv Channing, Bruce Jones, John Jacobson, Frank Doyle, Stan Goldberg, and Ralph Alphonso  and drawn by Vincente Alcazar, Doug Wildey, Carlos Pino, Jesse Santos, Sal Amendola, Bruce Jones, Al McWilliams, Gray Morrow and Frank Thorne, with Marv Channing and Frank Thorne introducing vampire hunter Henry Hobson as a potential reoccurring character....had this direction continued.

Forbidden Dark Mansions of DC

A little something to get you in the mood…whether it be horror or romance as Halloween approaches...


Starting with issue #1 of the Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love in September-October 1971, through #4 in March-April 1972, and then continuing as the Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion for issues #5-15 (from May-June 1972 to February-March 1974), fans of horror and romance had tales they could look forward to. 

With covers by Joe Orlando (#2), Jeff Jones (#3), Nick Cardy (#4, 5, 10, 12, 14, 15), Alan Weiss (#6), Mike Kaluta (#7, 8, 13), Neal Adams (#9), Jack Sparling (#11), and a photo cover for issue #1, this series is a treat for those able to find them, and you’ll find it no trick to appreciate the covers, presented below!

They say love hurts....

...love scars, love wounds...

...but, even so...

...these tales prove...

...that love can kill!

 

Some tales from Sinister House of Secret Love and Doorway to Nightmare (companion titles to this one) were even reprinted in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #20 (April, 1982), with a cover by Joe Orlando, using the Dark Mansions title, and issue #7 of Forbidden Tales of the Dark Mansion introduced Charity as a host, who ended up in James Robinson's Starman book.





Bloke's Terrible Tomb of Terror

Horror lives!

Think you can't find old style EC Comics like Wally Wood use to make?

Still looking for Warren Magazines like those that came out in the 1970s?

Well, look no further!

That old style is still alive, thanks to the internet!

The Bloke

Thanks to the Bloke (the host of the magazine, who also happens to be Jason Crawley, who writes many of the stories as well, and lives out his hosting duties at comic conventions in a Victorian Undertaker's outfit)...

...that old style of magazine horror lives with the Bloke's Terrible Tomb of Terror!

Ten issues of great, horrific fun, with covers by Mike Hoffman, all available via the internets (or is that the world wide web that this spider has you caught in?).

Great, spooky fun, just in time for Halloween!  If you like what you see, go get 'em and tell the Bloke, Dave sent ya!