Sucker Bait And Other Stories (The EC Comics Library, 6)

€œGhastly€ Graham Ingels drew this collection of gruesome short comics stories with twist endings, often €œhosted€ by Ingels€ €œOld Witch€ character: ripped from the pages of EC comics such as Tales From the Crypt.

Even 60 years after their original release, in an era of explicit horror, EC Comics superstar Graham €œGhastly€ Ingels€s grisly pages retain the power to shock. His loving depictions of the endless corruption of flesh and nature made him the go-to guy for stories involving swamps, maniacs, and dismemberment €" and all three combined to best effect in one of the standouts of this collection of his stories: €œHorror We? How€s Bayou?€ €" considered the single most spectacularly drawn of all of EC€s horror stories, with a climax that would give body-horror king David Cronenberg nightmares. Ingels specialized in depicting the unimaginable. If you ever wondered what the vengeful, decaying corpse of an elephant stomping a woman to death would look like, it€s in here (€œSquash...Anyone?€). Or living rats sewn into the bodies of a tyrannical king and queen (€œA Grim Fairy Tale€)... or the results of injecting a €œpoison-pen€ letter writer with literal poison and reducing him to, in the words of Al Feldstein€s script, a €œfoul-smelling, oozing pool of putrescence€ (€œNotes to You!€). One of the two Ray Bradbury adaptations in the book, €œThere Was an Old Woman€ (about a deceased crone who simply refuses to stay dead) provides the closest thing to a note of sweetness that you€ll find here €" perhaps with the exception of the genuinely romantic €œA Little Stranger!€ and its loving marriage between a dead vampire and a dead werewolf. Sucker Bait And Other Stories features 25 classic stories from Tales From the Crypt, Shock Suspen-Stories, Vault of Horror, and Ingels and his €œOld Witch€ character€s special showcase Haunt of Fear €" plus the usual fascinating historical, critical, and biographical material. Black & white