Tag: Spooky
Sax-Ona Ghost Show
Traveling spook show poster, 1950s
Pig With A Human Face, 1896
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, July 26, 1896
Nuns in Gas Masks
I can’t validate the authenticity of either of these photos, though the lack of any origin OR copyright status do make it seem they are authentic.
The Transformation of Dr. Jekyll
Promotional shot showing the transformation of Dr Jekyll into Mr Hyde.
The Bat, 1959
A killer known as “The Bat’ has returned and is loose in a mansion occupied by mystery writer Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead). He is searching for a million dollars worth of securities that was stashed there by the original thief, and the mansion’s owner, John Fleming. The question is who is the masked man called “The Bat?” Continue reading “The Bat, 1959”
Ghoul, 1933
Boris Karloff stars in this British horror film, where he plays the part of Prof. Henry Morlant, a dying Egyptologist who purchased “The Eternal Light” a rare Egyptian artifact, where if placed in the hand of Anubis after death, would grant the owner immortality. Naturally, everyone in the film wants the artifact for themselves, but patiently waited until the eccentric professor had passed away. After an elaborate burial, Morlant rises from the dead to retrieve his stolen jewel!
Original British movie poster
Happy Halloween, 1926
Mr. Skygack Observes Halloween
Walked along dark town-path about frost time of year and found picket-fences having moulting period ~~ many gates seemed to have left hinge-fastenings ~~ also,
malicious pumpkin-face leered at me through small-boy agency ~~ Earth beings probably having annual ghost-worship.
Published October 31, 1912
Pandaora’s Box, 1933
Photo by John Everard