Gwandanaland Comics #2777/2781

This Gwandanaland Comics reprint collects material from Eerie's "Weird": Giant #3, one of the vintage "Chilling Picto-Fiction" magazines that blended pulp illustration with prose-comics storytelling. The cover sets an unsettling tone immediately: a gray-haired man lies strapped or restrained in a red chair, a large mechanical device looming ominously over him amid a strange, otherworldly setting — promising stories billed inside as "The Incredible Terror of Vampire Flies" and "The Gruesome Shock of The Beast." If you enjoy mid-century horror anthology magazines with that distinctive painted-cover dread, this is a fine way to revisit the genre in one collected volume.