Horror
Vincent Price’s WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 24, 2019 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Horror, Fantasy, Myths and Fairytales, 1960s, Actors
Miss Geico
Am I alone in this, or does Miss Geico appear to be one of the hideous sea-folk who live off the coast of Lovecraft's Innsmouth, and conspire to interbreed with humans, producing hybrid abominations?
Home page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 04, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Horror, Motor Vehicles, Fictional Monsters
Paperbacks from Hell
For Halloween or Xmas, what could be a better gift? A brilliant art and history book about the crazy-ass horror novel covers of yore?
Read a review here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 24, 2017 -
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Category: Horror, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Books, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Follies of the Madmen #321
"Dead people like our beer."
From the American Legion magazine for May 1952.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jul 25, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Horror, 1950s, Alcohol
Psychomania
Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 17, 2017 -
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Category: Horror, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1970s, Motorcycles
Mystery Illustration 37
What horrors are causing the eyes of this Bride-of-Frankenstein lookalike to bug out?
Answer after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 22, 2017 -
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Category: Horror, Advertising, 1940s, Eyes and Vision, Face and Facial Expressions
Land of the Heads
Land of the Heads, Claude Barras & Cédric Louis, National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 31, 2016 -
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Category: Holidays, Horror, Blood, Head, Fictional Monsters
Ted V. Mikels, RIP
Obituary here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 19, 2016 -
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Category: Death, Eccentrics, Horror, Movies, 1960s, Blood, Dismemberment, Screams, Grunts and Other Exclamations
Hot Blood
Band info here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 21, 2016 -
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Category: Horror, Music, 1970s
Thai Commercial for Sylvania
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 16, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Giant People in Ads, Products, Horror, Foreign Customs, Fictional Monsters
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