Lord of the Rings Word Search Solution

Here it is.

See you on Monday, December 3rd, with a new Christmas music compilation.

  

Lord of the Rings Word Search

I created this in the fall of 1974, in my spare time. During these days I also was working on two or three unfinished and/or crappy novels, writing several dozen songs (some non-crappy), and meeting the most wonderful girl-woman on Earth.  Also my first semester of college.

Here is the word search:

And here are the words/terms to find:

As is typical with word searches, the words/terms can be found in any direction, in straight lines.

You fine folks have three weeks to solve it.  Although it probably isn't that hard.  I'll post the solution on Sunday, December 1.

See you then!

 

2018 Blog-o-Ween Header Art Sources

Grow 7 Monsters:

This ad for growing “plant creatures” was from Richie Rich #42, cover-dated February, 1966.

Grow 2 Monsters:

This half-page ad came from Pep!’s February, 1965 issue, #178.

And when you put it all together, you have ....

See you back here on Monday, Fiends and Squealations!
 

O My Darling ... Frankenstein?

Well, one of those ideas came to me in the early morning hours of this October.  When the demented muse finally discarded my mutilated brain, the following words were left behind.  It's a song, a filk if you will, to be sung to the tune of "Clementine."

My Monster Frankenstein

by Mark Alfred

On a table, in a castle,

Shackled down from toe to spine,

Lay a creature pale of feature –

And we called him Frankenstein.

          Oh my monster, oh my monster,

          Oh my monster Frankenstein,

          You were made to live forever –

          Awful scary, Frankenstein.

Tall he was and like a mountain,

And his shoes size twenty-nine –

Coffin boxes without topses

Formed a bed for Frankenstein.

          Oh my monster, oh my monster,

          Oh my monster Frankenstein,

          Shot with juice, you’ll live forever!

          Awful scary, Frankenstein.

Chased the peasants through the village,

Killed each one that he could find.

Said his maker was a faker,

Wouldn’t give him peace of mind.

          Oh my monster, oh my monster,

          Oh my monster Frankenstein,

          Did you want to live forever?

          Awful scary, Frankenstein.

All he wanted was a girlfriend.

All his love he would consign,

To a woman who would come and

Love the monster, Frankenstein.

          Oh my monster, oh my monster,

          Oh my monster Frankenstein,

          What you want I can’t deliver –

          Dreadful sorry, Frankenstein.

So he asked his kindly Doctor

To a girl for him design.

He’s so lonely, he’s the only

Manmade monster, Frankenstein.

          Oh my monster, oh my monster,

          Oh my monster Frankenstein,

          All your anguish makes me shiver –

          Awful scary, Frankenstein.

So the Doctor started sewing

On a female of the line.

All that stitching!  He was bitching,

That Professor Frankenstein.

          Oh my monster, oh my monster,

          Oh my monster Frankenstein,

          What’s he sewing?  You’re not knowing –

          Never worry, Frankenstein.

Then the Doctor turned the juice on,

On the form that lay supine.

Then her form began to warm!

And oh the joy of Frankenstein!

          Oh my monster, oh my monster,

          Oh my monster Frankenstein,

          Here’s a mate to have forever!

          Pretty happy, Frankenstein.

But the bride rose from the table,

Her disgust was unconfined.

Started screamin’ like a demon –

Dreadful sorry, Frankenstein.

          Oh my monster, oh my monster,

          Oh my monster Frankenstein,

          Did you ask to live forever?

          Awful scary, Frankenstein.

Now he staggers through the country

With a hate for all mankind.

His awoken heart was broken –

He’s so bitter, Frankenstein.

          Oh my monster, oh my monster,

          Oh my monster Frankenstein,

          What the cost, to live forever?

          Awful scary, Frankenstein.

Copyright © 2018 by Mark Alfred

Thanks for allowing me to drag your corpse through 2018 Blog-o-Ween!

Happy Hauntings!  

Halloween Decoration Fail

One of the buildings I work at has a lot of fun decorating their offices.  There's  contest for the best door decoration, too.

In October 2017 I was walking the halls and was bemused to see a very silly Halloween window decal.

What's wrong with this picture?  Why, everybody knows that a vampire wouldn't be smiling if his coffin bore a cross.  The poor schmuck probably couldn't even open the lid.

Sheesh!  The level of public ignorance about the basics of life nowadays!  The goof level only increases when you realize that the illo is a commercially available product!  That means that many eyes looked at the image before it was distributed, and not one moron picked up on the jarring dissonance.

Well, grease up your trapdoors and fire up your bonfires.  I'll see you back here on Wednesday, the 31st, for our final installment of this year's Blog-o-Ween!
 

Juvenalia: "The Spoor of Cthulhu"

You can tell what I read too much of as a teen.

By the time I was twenty, when I wrote this, I was totally warped.  Thanks, Aich-Pee-Ell!

See you back here on Monday for the commencement of the final week of this year's Blog-o-Ween!
  

More Munster-ous Mucking About

A few more pages of the Munsters coloring book.

 When Herman's "natural" face wins the prize at a costume party, Lily is insulted.

The above two images comprise a two-page spread.

Well, see you on Friday, kiddies, for another relic of my fictional past, Cthulhu-style.
 

Fran Krause’s Creepy Worlds, Number 2

Cartoonist and weird thinker Fran Krause has come up with some deliciously odd and bizarre thoughts.  I felt as if his growing-up was exposed to the same warping influences as mine!

These three panels are from his 2017 The Creeps:  A Deep Dark Fears Collection.  Read it!  Buy it!

 And I'll see you fine fiends once more on Wednesday!

  

Aurora’s Monster Customizing Kits!

As complements to their boffo, socko Universal Monster models, Aurora Plastics released a couple of Monster Customizing Kits.

My big brother, custodian of all that was manly (under-21 manly that is), bought them.

Here are some instructions sheets for these amalgamations of things intended to make your scary plastic monsters even scarier.

As they did with most of the Aurora monsters line, Polar Lights reissued their own version of the Monster Customizing Kits.

What are we leading up to?  why, my fifty-plus-year-old leftovers!

This is what’s left.  The tombstones have some very suspicious “weathering” to try and bring out the lettering:

ONE NOTE ABOUT THE PHOTO OF MY ITEMS:

The Frankenstein head isn’t part of a customizing kit.  No, it’s the survivor of a spin-off series that combined racing and monsters.

Many of the monster-figure parts of those monster-racer kits were the same as the actual “monster” kits, as you can tell by this Frankenstein head.

See you right back here on Monday, my fellow A-SCARE-icans!

You're the Topps

It's another installment of the Topps Monster Cards once bought as a bunch from a now-closed comics shop.

Above is one of the cards with a gal's face pasted over the original Evelyn Ankers image.

Above is the original.

This card's joke is a lot like those "Mommy, Mommy" / "Daddy, Daddy" jokes we pre-teens were so fond of.  Example:

KID:  Daddy, Daddy, I don't like running around in circles!
DADDY:  Shut up or I'll nail your other foot to the floor.

See you back here on Friday!

Fran Krause’s Creepy Worlds, Number 1

Cartoonist and weird thinker Fran Krause has come up with some deliciously odd and bizarre thoughts.  I felt as if his growing-up was exposed to the same warping influences as mine!

These three panels are from his 2015 Deep Dark Fears collection.  Read it!  Buy it!

See you on Wednesday.

More Munstrous Fun

Here're three more pages from the 1964 Munsters coloring book.

Leave it to old Herman to have a square head even with the knight's helmet off!

See you on Monday with more creepy fun!

1970s Paper Halloween Ephemera

Here are some of the paper Halloween decorations my mom bought, probably at TG&Y.

These just went up decorating our front door on Wednesday.

See you on Friday!

Halloween in Comics Land!

Here’re some fun scary bits from comic-book land:

From the November, 1941 Captain America

From the Fall, 1945 Comic Cavalcade

The December, 1946 Flash Comics cover

Action #247, December, 1958

Later on in the 1960s

So, as you can see, Halloween abounded in comic-book land!  See you on Wednesday!
 

Continuing ... Topps Monster Cards

Here are more of what I call Topps's Monster Cards:

 The above image references the 1972 Alka-Seltzer commercial with the same tagline.

 You'll note that some other female face has been pasted in over that of Wolf Man actress 

Maria Ouspenskaya.

My grandkids are sick of hearing my variation on the above gag:
Q:  Why is there a fence around the cemetery?
A:  Because people are just dying to get in!

And the follow-up:
Q:  How many dead people are in there?
A:  All of them!

See you on Monday, fiends and lashes!