With Eerie Publications not one to waste artwork dollars, the cover for volume 5, issue 4, of Terror Tales combines covers from Tales from the Tomb, August and October issues from 1970. So if you think it's a bit incoherent you're thinking right. In this issue, splendidly murky and swirling panels from Reynoso makes Ghoulish Feast a moody read. Pool of Horror, which leads off this issue, is also good, albeit with word balloons like "There's something evil in the air, I can feel it!" it is a tad contrived. The Swamp Devils hunger for revenge as the Harrabys can't escape their doom, and creatures that look like human moles in Doom Creatures are oblivious to fire and bullets, but not barium! (Say, wasn't barium salts the poison used on Frank Bigelow in the 1950 noir classic, D.O.A?)
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