Sucker Bait and Other Stories
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Even 60 years after their original release,in an era ofexplicit horror, EC Comics superstarGraham “Ghastly” Ingels’s grisly pagesretain the power to shock.His loving depictions of the endlesscorruption of flesh and nature madehim the go-to guy for stories involving swamps,maniacs, and dismemberment— and all three combined to best effectin one of the standouts of this collectionof his stories: “Horror We? How’sBayou?” — considered the single mostspectacularly drawn of all of EC’shorror stories, with a climax that would givebody-horror king David Cronenbergnightmares.Ingels specialized in depicting theunimaginable. If you ever wondered whatthe vengeful, decaying corpse of anelephant stomping a woman to death wouldlook like, it’s in here(“Squash...Anyone?”). Or living rats sewn into the bodiesof a tyrannical king and queen (“A GrimFairy Tale”)... or the results of injectinga “poison-pen” letter writer withliteral poison and reducing him to, in the words of Al Feldstein’s script, a“foul-smelling,oozing pool of putrescence” (“Notes toYou!”). One of the two Ray Bradbury adaptations in the book, “There Was anOld Woman” (about a deceased crone whosimplyrefuses to stay dead) provides theclosest thing to anote of sweetness that you’ll find here— perhapswith the exception of the genuinelyromantic “ALittle Stranger!” and its lovingmarriage between adead vampire and a dead werewolf.<em>Sucker BaitAnd Other Stories</em> features 25classicstories from <em>Tales From the Crypt</em>, <em>Shock Suspen-Stories</em>, <em>Vaultof Horror</em>, and Ingels and his “OldWitch” character’s special showcase <em>Haunt of Fear</em>— plus the usual fascinating historical,critical,and biographical material.
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