Original post here. Image contains a stone marker on which were incised the words “Original burial place of EDGAR ALLAN POE from October 9, 1849 until November 17, 1875.” Sourced to cultqueens via radioactivelingerie.
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Thrilling Mystery
As is evident, this is the cover of an issue of Thrilling Mystery magazine. Specifically, it’s the August 1936 edition, as indicated here. A modern reproduction of the cover is available for purchase, but no information on the cover artist is available. Text on the cover reads “Thrilling Mystery. Spawn of the Slime: A Horror Novelette of the Evil Seas byHal K. Wells. Food for the Wolf, a Novelette of Howling Terror by G.T. Fleming-Roberts. The Grave Gives Up, A Novelette of the Living Dead, by Jack D’Arcy. Featuring City of Creeping Death, a Weird Mayan Novelette by John H. Knox.”
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
Is that a salamander?
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Is that a salamander?
Scyphozoan Lifecycle
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A market?
This image is a still from an early 1970s Color Climax 8mm porn loop called Slave Market. (CC Film No. 1403 Slave Market, 100M/340FT. Color De Luxe) The movie was advertised on the back of the film box thusly:
‘Many strange things happen in Copenhagen’s porno underworld. If you’ve got the dough, there is no limit to your experiences: You can even take part in a sale of slave-girls and sex servants. For a couple of hundred you can buy girls in a somewhat unusual brothel and be sure they will obey you absolutely. Just like cattle the girls are paraded on the stage, tied up with strings and secured with leather collars, ready for the auction…”
A gallery here contains a few more stills and shows the box cover from the videotape era, when the movie was marketed as Slave Market: Color Climax Video 294. About 20 thumbnails of scenes within the movie can be seen here. A forum thread here offers several more larger-sized stills of the slave auction scene.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
A store we’d all like to visit
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Nice tentacles
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More Terror Tales
As is evident from the image, this is the cover of a Terror Tales magazine, with the following text visible on the cover: “Terror Tales. Brides for the Damned, a pulse-speeding mystery terror novel by Wayne Rogers. Blassingame – Quinliven – Cummings – Dale Clark.” According to this page it is Volume 6, #4: the September-October issue from 1936. The Internet Science Fiction Database says of this issue that the cover artist was John Howitt, which is consistent with the “H” artist signature visible lower right. A replica of this issue is commercially available.
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.
For what ails you
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Dealing with the devil
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C’mon, turn off the Lights… by =TheLadyJ
“I got so sick of being on my own, now the devil won’t leave me alone. It’s almost like I’ve found a friend, who’s in it for the bitter end.”
Imagine, you make a deal with the devil, then shit, that dude never goes away!
So I drew myself being bothered by the devil. Of course he comes with his creepy-crawlies, offering a mean ‘ole Thistle flower, and just being a pest! I made his hair, bats. Why? Because bats are cute. We’ve Centipedes, Coral snakes, vultures, spiders, scorpions and roaches. And me looking particularly peeved at his extended stay.
“Please, get this fucking scorpion off my head. Now.”
Threw the Tarot cards in for fun and colored them sloppily with colored pencils to make them different from the solid marker. There’s the Devil, The Two of Cups, The Ace of Swords, and the Fool.