Original post here. Original text “Larry Brent 173 by Michael Studt on Flickr.”
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Larry Brent’s Death Dance
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Original post here. Image contains the text “Dan Shocker’s silber Grusel-Krimi. Larry Brent’s TotenTanz.” Original text “Silber Grusel-Krimi 100 by Michael Studt on Flickr.”
Big gulp
This animated .gif consists of a few frames from the 2010 movie Sharktopus. According to Wikipedia, the movie features a half-shark, half-octopus creature commissioned by the U.S. Navy that escapes its creators to attack beach-goers in Puerto Vallarta. There’s a short poor-quality clip on YouTube featuring the bungee-jumping scene from which this .gif was excerpted. A few more Sharktopus .gifs may be seen in this Tumblr post.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Things that once were girls…
Image is a cover of Horror Stories and contains the text “Horror Stories. 15¢. Aug.-Sept. Things That Once Were Girls, spine-tingling mystery-horror novelette by Donald Graham. Two big feature-length novels: Satan’s Five Days by Henry Treat Sperry. School for the Dying by Julius Long.” Found in this index at The Golden Age.
Rat temple
Original post here. Image contains the text “Larry Brent. Unheimliche Grusels von Dan Shocker. Rätsel-Tempel des Dschinn. Dan Shocker.” Original text “Larry Brent 139 by Michael Studt on Flickr.”
Girl and mad-science beast
Original post here. Image contains the text “W.J. Tobien. Silber Grusel-Krimi. Horror-Klinik.” Original text “Silber Grusel-Krimi 316 by Michael Studt on Flickr.”
Knight versus tentacle beast
This surprisingly modern image of tentacle ravishment is from an extremely rare collection of 40 illustrations first published in 1905 and entitled La Grande Danse Macabre des Vifs. It was the work of Martin van Maële, and according to this Christies listing, fewer than 100 copies were published and it is almost impossible to find, although Wikipedia says a reprint edition was published by Déesse, Nanterre in 1980.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Boiled in the tube
Image is a cover of Horror Stories (October-November 1937) and contains the text “Horror Stories. 15¢ Oct.-Nov. Two blood-chilling novelettes of eerie mystery and horror. Listen to the Madman’s Drum! by Francis James. Daughter of the Devil by Ralston Shields.” Found in this index at The Golden Age.
Octopus man
Original post here. Image contains the text “Uncanny Tales. May, 15 cents. The Soul Eater by Thomas P. Kelley. Mr. Packer Goes to Hell by Cecil Corwin.” Sourced via greatgrottu. Original text:
Sculptor of Corpses
Original post here. Image contains the text “Thrilling Mystery. A Thrilling Publication. Sept. 10¢. Sculptor of Corpses, A Novelet of Weird Cadavers by Ray Cummings. The Faring of the Wolf, A Novelet of Satan’s Slaves by Roger Howard Norton.” Sourced via greatgrottu. Original text:
Weird Cadavers