I love classic horror. Not just modern classics like Halloween, Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, and Evil Dead, but old classics that more often than not drift into the realm of “camp.” I’m referring to Hammer Horror films, the MGM Monster movies and anything involving Vincent Price. No, these films aren’t scary, per se, but they are great at evoking feelings of evil and Halloween and autumn and darkness. That’s what I love about them: they are a completely separate entity from say, Paranormal Activity. They don’t scare me, but I love them just the same.

In that same vein, I love books that pay tribute to 50′s, 60′s, and 70′s horror comics. I doubt anyone has ever been genuinely scared reading Tales From The Crypt, but that doesn’t mean they’re not awesome (they are). Someone else apparently gets this, and that someone is Asylum Press. To wit: they’ve just released the first Anthology of their throwback horror comic, EEEK!

Apologies for the glare.

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Not really anything horror-related, but a damn good comic, and it’s the six hundred and sixty-sixth episode.

I stumbled across this fantastic horror web comic, Split Lip.

Written by Sam Costello, drawn by a large roster of artists, Split Lip is a nearly-weekly comic, broken up into several different stories which range from bank robbers getting their just desserts to his latest story, which involves more of an internal horror, where the lines between what’s real and what’s in your head is a theme.

I’m going to spend some more time going through the rest of these comics soon (work only allows me so much free browse time during the day), but I recommend spending some time reading these. It’ll be better than a lot of the other comic garbage out there now on the internet, I promise you that.

Buy some stuff from their store. It’ll be good for you.

Nor have they ever aspired to be. I know most of the time I do a poor job of describing what’s going on with whatever bullshit I’m linking, and this is no different…. but if you were born in the period from 1977 to 1985 then there’s a 100% chance you’ll recognize most of these comics. They harken back to the days when the comics were still “the funny pages” and they were, in fact, funny…. *sigh*

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If you’re looking for a site to peruse or some comics to read on this Monday night before the mayhem begins, then check out Halloween Man. Fitting I know.

If you don’t like Mastodon, well we’re very disappointed in you, but we won’t ask you to leave this site immediately. But again, we’re disappointed. Go listen to them and like them. Everyone still here? Good. Anyways, this piece of magic was stolen from one of the best music websites around, metalsucks. It’s fantastic, and it’s about Mastodon, so it’s Mastadontastic. YOU LOVE IT.

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