What Are Your Favorite Weird Tales ?

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CYRUS said:
Robert E Howard was one of the writer that got me interes



My favorite non Conan Howard Story is Kings of the Night , In this story the seemingly ageless ancient Pictish sorcerer Gonar has summoned King dead 100,000 to time Bran Mak Morn to aid him in his war against the Roman. This a magnificent story , in it you Bran Mac Morn, King Kull and Cormac Art all in one story. This is a terrific story ! There was Graphic novel adaptation of this particular story.
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Do tell me, Pulpus, you dig the comics? Stuff like the Roy Thomas written Conan mags put out by Marvel back in the seventies? Ol Roy did Howard adaptions well, and penned many of his own tales. And the art? Top notch--cats like Barry Windsor Smith (Genius), and Big John Buscema (legend) and a host of gifted inkers/embellishers, some great painted cover paintings by guys like Boris Vallejo...oh, just a wealth of fine funny books.

But I imagine I'm preaching to the choir, aye?
 
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muskrat said:
Do tell me, Pulpus, you dig the comics? Stuff like the Roy Thomas written Conan mags put out by Marvel back in the seventies? Ol Roy did Howard adaptions well, and penned many of his own tales. And the art? Top notch--cats like Barry Windsor Smith (Genius), and Big John Buscema (legend) and a host of gifted inkers/embellishers, some great painted cover paintings by guys like Boris Vallejo...oh, just a wealth of fine funny books.

But I imagine I'm preaching to the choir, aye?
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My overall knowledge of Comics and Graphic novels is pretty woeful . I never really got into them. In terms story telling artistic achievement , you have to respect them because they are both art and literature . Quite a number people that I know who like science fiction ,fantasy and Horror started out with Comics. I seem to be something an exception in that regard, Ive read some but not many . Ive read a few Conan Comics.

There are couple that comics that vague remember from the 70's There was comic that done by Gardner Fox Shadow and Soul and Dax the Warrior. I think they were Creepy or Erie Magazine. Ive read a few heavy metal Magazine Issues , Richard Corben Den I know abot about. I also know that Corbin did a graphic novel adaptation of Clark Ashton Smith's The Vaults of Yoh Vombus . I have read both The Dark Night Returns which I've read And Watchmen both of which were marvelous. I do know some basic history of comics , but not a great deal, mostly bits and pieces.
 
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CYRUS said:
My overall knowledge of Comics and Graphic novels is pretty woeful I majorly never really got into them. In terms story telling artistic achievement , you have to respect them because they are both art and literature . Quite a number people that I know who like science fiction ,fantasy and Horror started out with Comics. I seem to be something an exception in that regard, Ive read some but not many . Ive read a few Conan Comics.
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I recommend Thomas and Smith's Adaption of Red Nails.
 
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"Where the Woodbine Twineth" of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Its the one and only that i cant find online but am always searching for it. Its an old fashioned doll story based in the deep South and one you can never forget, it will haunt your mind forever.
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I meant to add that is based on a short story written by a man named Manly Wade Wellman. Here is a peek at it .....

 
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Font know if anyone ever read those, but I loved those books when I was little. The one about the lady with spiders in her face was a really strange one. There's another about a scarecrow that came to life or something that was as equally weird. The pictures were the best part of it, though.

I wish I still had my little collection of those. :m_sob:
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the ilustrarions in those are still genuinely disturbing
 
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Looks like there's finally another Lovecraft adaptation coming. It's been a long time since there was one. There are lots of shorts, but I have no idea where to see those - I think they play at specialized festivals. The last I can remember that I saw is Stuart Gordon's 'Dreams in the Witchhouse' from Masters of Horror, and even that wasn't a full length film, but a tv episode. There was long talk of Guillermo del Toro doing one, but it never happened.

Nicolas Cage Reteaming with 'Mandy' Producers for H.P. Lovecraft Adapatation
 
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