Don't Eat Them Shrooms!

Scary Books, Kiddies!

 

Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems.  By HP Lovecraft.  Ballantine, 1971.  Cover art by Gervasio Gallardo.  Formerly titled Collected Poems.  Copyright 1963 by Arkham House.

What can I say? If you like ol’ Aich-Pee Ell, you may like his poems. Of course, there’s the sonnet cycle after which the book is named, but plenty of other brief riffs, most of them belaboring under that 18th-century affectation so dear to the Old Man’s heart.

            Speaking of that organ’s equilibrium ... he might have been scandalized by the mammacious lizard woman on the back cover!

            See you on Monday, with a brand-new music comp, chillun!

  

Looking for Some Action?

... Of the juvenile kind, that is?

This ad is from Action #466, cover-dated December 1976, but on sale well before Halloween.

I do suggest not printing, filling out, and mailing the order form.  I bet the prices have gone up a bit.

See you on Friday for more Scary Books, Kiddies!

  

Remembering a Big Ole Hairy Guy ...

... and half the time, he didn't WANT to be hairy!

Yes, I cut this article out when it was printed in the July 14, 1973 Tulsa World.  Should I be worried that RIGHT NOW I am that same age?

Scary thoughts, kiddies!  See you on Wednesday with a spooky ad from our nation's bicentennial year.