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Dreadful Stories is a series of comics in What Remains of Edith Finch. In the game, only the October 1961 issue chronicling Barbara Finch's demise is shown.
Graphic details of the volume[]
The issue in the game was sold for 10 cents. It was released in October 1961. The front cover mostly consists of a title Dreadful Stories and an image of Barbara holding a crutch and screaming over a shadow figure only fully visible to her. The word "TERROR" is written in the upper left. In the bottom-left corner is a pumpkin-headed creature called "Old Jack". On the back, a bloody ear with a piercing lays inside a music box.
Trivia[]
- Dreadful Stories may be an allusion to the 1950s EC horror anthology series The Vault of Horror, Tales from the Crypt and The Haunt of Fear which all had a similar premise of a monstrous host with a tendency to make puns narrating a self-contained horror story.
- Thanks to the moral panic that grew out of Seduction of the Innocent the Comics Code Authority was founded the same year (1954) effectively killing horror comics. Until the mid 1960s what horror comics that did exist were done under licenses of existing TV programs such as Twilight Zone and Thriller or horror classic such as Frankenstein and Dracula.
Gallery[]
The front of the comic.
The ads page of the comic.
Page 1 of the comic.
Page 2 of the comic.
Page 3 of the comic.
An excerpt from page 4 of the comic.
An excerpt from page 4 of the comic.
An excerpt from page 6 of the comic.
Page 10 of the comic.
Page 11 of the comic.
The back of the comic.
References[]
- ↑ Said after completing the comic.
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