Soooo…we didn’t intend to send out a thematic collection related to Halloween because, well, as you may have noticed, thematic windows and emails and stuff like that aren’t our graveyard. But WHOA BOY with this collection we got it. It’s, erm, very seasonal. Or, if you’re like us, perennial. We hang balls up in our windows around Christmas because we don’t want to be THOSE people, and certainly Hallowe’en events are always our speed. But this collection folks… This is a FULL-TILT spooky collection. We’ve just started going through it too so there’s lots more to come. But until then, just check this out. (We’ve catalogued other things here as well just to satisfy the more daytime folks on our list. You’re welcome.)
As we said last week in our regular New Arrivals email this collection is of a certain type. That type is, um, pervy? How can we explain? It’s comics and porn. But not like bland-toast porn. It’s artisanal. We could go on about the cultural legacy and relevancy of these items but we won’t bore you. But, yeah, be prepared – it’s a trip. Accompanying these delectibles are a number of niche comics as well. We’ve been to enough storage lockers to know that these interests cohabitate often.
Most interesting to us are copies of CREEPY magazine, a sister publication of Vampirella, which included Steve Ditko and Frank Frazetta among its contributors. It’s very cool, as is the Exorcist make-up artist Dick Smith’s How-to Monster Make-up Magazine. Add a Chaos Magic book, sexy superheroines, a scarce Windigo title, a treatise on “serial time”, an OUP Lovecraft anthology, and Cult Movie magazines, and the theme seems to be TRANSFORMATION if transformation includes humanoid killers and boobs in lycra. A suitable theme for the autumn, we suppose, where everything outside sleeps or dies and imaginations go indoors for the winter.
It’s a good time for stories. It’s a good time to sit down and finally write that She-Hulk fan story you’ve been thinking about – the one where she wrestles a seven-foot werebeast in revealing law-wear. We’re not saying we like it. We’re not saying we DON’T like it. We’re just saying that, like the fabled Great Canadian Spiderbat, it exists. And for the less kinky (or the kinky with day lives) we’ve also included some more (relatively speaking) ordinary stuff, which looks positively normal alongside the rest.
So stock up for this season’s spooky evening sessions or get the early Christmas gift for your weirdo girlfriend. No judgement here. We know ourselves too much to judge.
Much love,
Jason and Vanessa
