Halloween Hospital Horrors ALIEN WORLDS "Wasteland"

To Some Patients, the Most Terrifying Thing About Their Hospital Stay...

...is the poor choice of TV programming the hospital provides!

But when Fate offers some "alternative viewing"...

Scripted by Bruce Jones, and penciled/inked by Tom Yeates, this tale from Pacific Comics' Alien Worlds #5 (1983) combines a nightmare suffered by way too many hospital patients (myself included, during a recent stay) with the classic time travel trope of "don't change anything in the past, no matter how inconsequential, because..."
And if you have to ask "Does this really qualify as a Halloween Hospital Horror?"..well, it takes place in a hospital...and it's horrifying!

Besides, it's my blog!

Halloween Hospital Horrors WITCHES TALES "Tank of Corpses" & TALES OF VOODOO "Satan's Dead Demons"

Did You Know Hospitals Had Floating Corpses En Masse in Tanks of Formaldehyde?

..although not in a swimming pool-type glass tank as shown here!

Though this story from Harvey's Witches Tales #9 (1952), illustrated by Joe Certa, was not reprinted until over a half-century later (in 2012), the script (by an unknown writer) was reused for a redrawn version by Alberto Macagno that appeared only twenty years later in Eerie's b/w anthology magazine Tales of Voodoo V5N6 (1972)...and several subsequent reprintings in other Eerie Publications titles over the years!

I have no idea if the concept of a witch coming back to life if her hair is cut is an actual folk belief or just something conceived by the writer!

But it's kool, eh?

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Halloween Hospital Horrors ADVENTURES INTO TERROR "Body Snatchers"

We Begin Out Our Annual Halloween Presentation...

...with an Example of the Way Colleges and Teaching Hospitals Used to Acquire Specimens for Anatomical Study!

Illustrated by Al Luster and plotted by Stan Lee, this sinister story from Atlas' Adventures in Terror #24 (1953) was typical of the 1950s Horror Age material comics published until Dr Fredric Wertham almost destroyed the comic book business with his Seduction of the Innocent hysteria that inflamed the American Public into believing that "comics caused juvenile delinquency"!

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