![]() Marie doesn’t like her husband – that’s evident from the beginning, with constant nagging like “You fool!” and “I could have married a man!” She gets even angrier when Lou says he hasn’t paid the electric bill, which means they’ll be rooting through the old house by candlelight. To make matters worse, it’s a dark night and they just climbed a massive stone staircase to reach the house on the hill. As a child, Lou remembers just how scary the house was…full of dusty old antiques, candles everywhere…and he’s not excited about going inside. Lou and Marie have just inherited to sinister Shadow House from Lou’s “favorite” uncle. The reader can call him “Digger,” he says, in first person narrative – and the frightening figure believes the reader looks like someone who rushed past him just the other night…on their way to Shadow House. Bats flying from the background complete the scene. Look, it’s a narrator! Can anyone say Crypt Keeper? Opening the first page of Tower of Shadows, we see a lanky, pasty-faced skeleton of a man standing in a graveyard with a shovel firmly planted in the ground. WARNING! SPOILERS FOLLOW Story #1 – “At the Stroke of Midnight” Creatures on the Loose was canceled with issue #37. Later issues in the series added more sword-and-sorcery than horror, including stories of Lin Carter’s Thongor the Barbarian. It was a story penned by Marvel’s own Bullpen barbarian writer Roy Thomas with art by the famous Bernie Wrightson. The lead story in the series’ premiere issue was “At the Stroke of Midnight!” which featured art by Jim Steranko – it would later win the 1969 Alley Award for best feature story.Īfter issue #9, Tower of Shadows became Creatures on the Loose, and the first issue under the new title featured the debut of Robert E. It would run a whopping 321 issues and undergo several shifts in content until its cancellation in 1983.Īt the height of DC’s success in the genre, Marvel wanted to get into the game and created Tower of Shadows, which debuted in 1969, and its sister title, Chamber of Darkness. Their “leading” title in this genre was called House of Mystery, and it began in 1951 as an anthology of scary stories. ![]() ![]() In the mid to late 1960s, DC Comics was experiencing huge success with a handful of horror titles. This installment is written by Wally Monk.) Welcome to Saturday Night Shivers, a weekly feature about horror comics. All horror stories we review are from books approved by the Comics Code Authority or from comics that were published before the code was enacted. In the spirit of Elvira, the Ghoul, and other horror movie hosts, we’ll be featuring a review of one classic horror comic each week. ( EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to Saturday Night Shivers, a feature at Paint Monk’s Library.
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