There! There, Wolf!

Scary Books, Kiddies!

                                                 

Werewolf!.  Edited by Bill Pronzini.  Perennial Library, 1980.  Copyright 1979.  Cover design by Jon Weiman. 

            You can read the contents on the back cover.  There’s also an introduction by Pronzini.

            It’s a fun conglomeration with a wild cover.  That’s it.  See you Monday!

  

Flight 19 Still in the Ether!

A few times, the mysterious loss of Flight 19 has been heralded as solved. As narrated in countless books harping on the so-called Bermuda Triangle, Five Avenger planes in the USAF (and one follow-up plane searching for them) went missing in December 1945.

As a follower-after of spooky, oddball things, I was quick to clip some newspaper articles which mention such things.

This article's from the December 6, 1989 Tulsa World, forwarded to me by my dear mom, who knew my taste for weirdness.

On May 17, 1991, the Oklahoman reported another false find.  I mean, they found five Avengers at the bottom of the deep blue sea ... but they were some other five Avengers.  Yeah, right ... 

The next day, an OKC resident recounted his role in the search for Flight 19, back in the day.

This article from the Oklahoman of May 27, 1991 ruminated on how the discovery of the five planes was interesting, whether they were Flight 19 or not.

But they weren't, as this clipping from the June 5, 1991 Oklahoman narrates.

You may read the government's version of the tale here.  But Flight 19 flies on in the imagination, until pinned down by an actual discovery.

See you Friday, ladies and germs!

  

SHOCK! A New Halloween Comp!

Gotcha, didn't I!

Yep, it's another putrefying posse of puke punches to the breadbasket.  To wit:

01 - Monster Music (from The Monster Squad) - Bruce Broughton - 1987  (0:52)

02 - Peek-A-Boo - The Cadillacs - 1958  (2:11)

03 - Attack of the Giant Ants - Blondie - 1976  (3:25)

04 - How Come I Can't See You in My Mirror - Tonio K - 1978  (2:59)

05 - Horror Pictures - The Calvanes - 1958  (2:03)

06 - Victims of the Vampire - Slaughter and the Dogs - 1978  (2:56)

07 - I Crept into the Crypt and Cried - Vic Norwin - 1965  (2:40)

08 - King Kong - Suzy Andrews - 1982  (3:00)

09 - Drac Walk - Vladimir and the Grave Diggers - 1962  (2:53)

10 - All My Friends Are Zombies - The Priscillas - 2005  (2:38)

11 - Creature with the Atom Brain - Mike Rep and the Quotas - 1975  (4:39)

12 - In a Cave - Zimbo Chimps - 1984  (2:46)

13 - The Chiller - The Vic Plati Quintet - 1965  (3:22)

14 - Morgue Watch - The Nubs - 1980  (2:26)

15 - Who Dat - The Commodores - 1959  (1:59)

16 - Creature Without a Head - Lenny and the Squigtones - 1980  (1:53)

17 - Spooks the Cowboy - Sheppy King - 1958  (2:02)

18 - The Ghost Train - The Hairs - 1991  (2:37)

19 - Hillbilly Swampman - Eldon Rice - 1965  (2:50)

20 - Graveyard Rock - The Joneses - 1982  (2:27)

21 - Horror Movie - Mann Drake - 1962  (2:31)

22 - Fade to Black - Junior Achievement - 1984  (3:19)

23 - Voodoo Doll - Rhonda Silver - 1963  (2:10)

24 - Vampire Beat - The Golden Horde - 1986  (3:00)

25 - Basket Case from Outer Space - The Voronas - 2004  (3:31)

26 - Count - Vain Aims - 1980  (2:53)

27 - Nightmare - Johnny Worth - 1960  (2:20)

28 - Mazeppa - Randy Prahl - 2008  (2:52)

29 - To Die on Halloween - Two Steps From Hell (featuring Nick Phoenix) - 2012  (3:11)

Go ahead and gulp the whole thing down at once ... it can only kill ya!

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I worked my fingers to someone else's bone on this one, kiddies!  Hope you have fun!

See ya on Wednesday!

  

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.
  

Honeymoon in Hell

Yes, it's another year of installments of

Scary Books, Kiddies!

                                                    

Honeymoon in Hell.  Fredric Brown, 1958.  Bantam, 1982.  This selection from Bantam gives no cover credit. 

      But wouldn’t you be intrigued to meet her ?!?! ... even if it’s the last thing you ever do ...

      It’s another brief tome packed with more ideas in 150 pages than many authors achieve in 700.  Among the many gems is “Arena,” adapted by Star Trek as an episode of the same name.

      “The Weapon” sticks in your memory.  Only a madman would give a loaded gun to an idiot.

            And don’t forget the vignette, “Imagine.”  Rediscover some of that ol’ sense of wonder here, kiddies!

See you on Monday.  Don't get spooked!

  

Come Get a New Boo!

Since our neighborhood library, the Almonte in OKC, is being rebuilt NEW AND IMPROVED, I go to browse at the next nearest, the Southern Oaks library.

Here is the section where they put out new arrivals.  Take a look at the far left end of this shelf.

As you see, the black vertical sign does NOT say "NEW BOOKS."  Just in time for this season, we're offered "NEW BOO."

Now that's my type of library!

See you on Friday!

    

Get Punked -- Halloween Style!

 Welcome to BLOG-O-WEEN 2023!

                          

Yes, it’s a bunch of silly, scary, goofy, flesh-crawling songs from the Halloween side of the 1980s!  Maybe when you’re done listening, you’ll have conquered all your monsters (Track 2).  Track 4 is an instrumental misnamed after the leading character of Escape from New York.  Track 10 is a fairly sad cash-in attempt.  Would you rather be a teenage werewolf, or his bride (Tracks 17 and 18)?  Track 20 is a silly parody of Cher’s “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.”  Track 21 is a paranoid rumination on a certain unlucky number.  Track 23 is from the fun 1985 TV movie The Midnight Hour, including such luminaries as Shari Belafonte, LeVar Burton, and Macaulay Culkin’s first role as an uncredited trick-or-treater.  But I saved the best track of all for last, by the minimalist geniuses the Jr Chemists.  Enjoy!

01 - Spring Heeled Jack - Paul Roland   1989   (2:52)

02 - Monsters - Ella Mental   1986   (3:34)

03 - My Mummy - Smart Alec   1980   (3:59)

04 - Snake Pliskin - Annabel Lamb   1983   (2:16)

05 - Kiss of Death - The Warlocks   1987   (4:04)

06 - Invasion of the Gamma Men - Shake   1980   (3:44)

07 - Imagination - Idiot Dancers   1981   (2:55)

08 - Fred Cadaver - Strong Silent Types   1982   (1:54)

09 - Nightmare (Fear of Sleep) - Violent Marriage   1982   (2:57)

10 - Whatever Happened To Eddie - Eddie & the Monsters (Butch Patrick)   1983   (1:51)

11 - Spit Upon Your Grave - Blood and Roses   1985   (4:14)

12 - I Was a Teenage Zombie - The Fleshtones   1987   (2:17)

13 - Ghosties - Red Harvest   1989   (2:47)

14 - Haunted - Marine Boy   1982   (4:04)

15 - Godzilla Approaches Tokyo - Knightclub   1984   (2:55)

16 - The Brain That Wouldn't Fry - Crawling Walls   1985   (4:08)

17 - (I Was a) Teenage Werewolf - The Flirts   1983   (4:28)

18 - Teenage Werewolf's Bride - Bad Karma Beckons   1986   (2:36)

19 - Tango with the Dead - Gollywobblers from Hell!   1985   (4:18)

20 - Monsters - Martyr Complex   1981   (3:24)

21 - Thirteen - Dogma Probe   1982   (4:27)

22 - Synthetic Flesh - The Househunters   1987   (3:20)

23 - Get Dead - Shari Belafonte   1985   (2:58)

24 - Monster Island - Jr CHemists   1981   (1:28)

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See you on Wednesday!  Remember, all this month we'll have new posts every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!