A Pictorial History of Horror Stories by Peter Haining

Author:Peter Haining
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: gnv64, 200 Years of Illustrations from the Pulp Magazines
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Perhaps no more imaginative or chilling

illustration of the horror of Hitler's war

appeared than this picture (opposite) by

Stephen Lawrence for the Famous

Fantastic Mysteries issue of September

1945. It illustrated Joe Archibald's story of

what really happened to the Fuehrer at the

end of the war. 'Heaven Only Knows'

(Above) Another superb Lawrence illustration for Warwick Oeeping's grim story

The Man Who Went Back' Famous

Fantastic Mysteries. December 1947

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Torture and cruelty were staple ingredients

of several of the pulps like Horror Stories

and Terror Tales, as the selections on the

next four pages show. Not surprisingly,

perhaps, the stories often failed to live up

to the ghastly expectations of the pictures!

These fiendish stocks on the cover of

Horror Stories

(September 1935) were the

work of John Newton Howett for Hugh B

Cave's story of a woman trapped in an

asylum

Religious fanaticism was combined with

flagellation in 'Satan's Lash', a story by

Arthur J. Burks which Ralph Carlson

illustrated for Horror Stories (September

1935)

Chained women and an evil monk-one of

the enduring images from the pulps that

specialised in sex and sadism, and an

indication that little had changed since the

days of M, G, Lewis's pioneer Gothic '

novel. The Monk. Paul Oban drew this

heading for Horror Stories' monthly

feature 'Chamber of Horrors'

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