Horror We? How's Bayou?

[cyberghostface]

Something different for this one. Comixology is having an EC sale until 11 tonight (EST) for some Fantagraphic collections of various EC comics in black and white to better show off the artist's work. You can access the page here.

Here's a sampling of a story from Graham Ingels, originally published in Haunt of Fear #17.

The story opens with a young man getting lost by an old plantation house near the bayous. He goes there to ask for directions when an older man named Sidney lets him in. Sidney, it turns out, switched the signs so the man, Mr. Forman, would arrive at this place. Forman asks why, and Sidney tells him it's because his brother is a homicidal maniac.



We see via flashbacks that Sidney has killed and dismembered two other people, a woman and a salesman.

Comments

[fungo_squiggly]

I find it sort of curious that the murder victims apparently chose to spare Everett, considering that he was the one who actually killed them.

[cyberghostface]

Well he's the one leading them to the brother and unlike the brother he's not insane.

[icon_uk]

Everett is a madman who can't control his actions, his brother on the other hand was the one who maliciously contrived to lure innocent souls in to feed Everett's impulses in order to spare his own life.

[md84]

Sidney's even more guilty since he could have simply let the authorities know that his brother was mentally ill. That way, Everett wouldn't be able to hurt anyone else.

[halloweenjack]

I'd read references to "Ghastly" Ingels before, but now that I've actually seen his work, the influence on Bissette and Totleben's Swamp Thing work seems obvious.

[alicemacher]

My second-favourite of all the groanworthy EC horror story titles!

(The first being "T'aint the Meat...It's the Humanity!", which is also available in a b&w Fantagraphics anthology by that title.)

[icon_uk]

Yes, the title is almost more horrific than the story contents!