Dripping with blood and telling stories fraught with fright, Eerie Publications' multiple lines of horror comic books in the 1960's and ’70's resurrected the sinister spirit of the EC Comics of the 1950's, even managing to sneak in reprinted tales from the pre-Comics Code Authority days. Now IDW Publishing/Yoe Books is bringing back the most memorable macabre moments from Eerie Publications' horror comics in a collection due out this fall.
Coined The Worst of Eerie Publications and set for release in September, this collection will include 21 Terror Tales from Eerie Publications' horror heyday. The panel pages will be re-mastered in the vintage black and white format in which they were originally printed, with covers reproduced in full color:
"This September, children will go back to school and the leaves on the trees will turn golden as they greet the first day of fall. IDW Publishing/Yoe Books will proudly interrupt this beautiful time of year with the release of a collection of blood-drenched, spine-cracking tales ripped from the pages of the most demented horror comics ever published in The Worst of Eerie Publications.
"I should have my head examined, letting that maniac Howlett loose to infect everyone with this mind-melting collection of Graphic Gore!” said Craig Yoe.
“After having my book The Weird World of Eerie Publications published in 2010, I was trying to think of how else I could damage the collective minds of the innocent. IDW and Yoe Books have given me the opportunity to carry on the outrage with this revolting tome. My momma always said it was nice to share, so I’m happy to share my sickness! Bon Appétit!” said Mike Howlett
Collected for the first time in a deluxe edition are the incredibly gory, crazy, and infamous Eerie Publications horror comics; comics that really pushed the boundaries of good taste. With scripts pilfered from Pre-Code horror comics, these twisted tales of illustrated terror feature artwork by Dick Ayers, Chic Stone, Domingo Mandrafina, the Iger Shop, and many other unsung masters of the morbid and are presented in glorious, carefully re-mastered black and white. Absolutely not to be missed for those who enjoy the grisly and the lurid.
And what about those nausea-inducing covers? We’ve got them! A horrid helping of deadly, full-color covers are reproduced for your discomfort and revulsion. Enjoy!
Gratuitous gore! Multi-Monster Madness! Bound Beauties! Oh my! 21 Terror Tales that only Eerie Publications would dare publish… until now.
And don't forget to check out the other chilling and wacky archvial titles from IDW and Yoe Books, Haunted Horror and Weird Love!"
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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