Baron Weirwulf’s Haunted Library #38
Script by Nicola Cuti (Last Of Its Kind)
Art by Joe Staton (Last of Its Kind)
Published by Charlton Comics Group
Dated: 1978
The cover to my copy of Baron Weirwulf’s Haunted Library #38. Copyright 1978 Charlton Publications, Inc.
I’ve never been a big anthology fan, especially not of the horror genre. Scary stories are great and all, but often times I find that the need to tell the tale in a truncated manner causes certain things to be overlooked. As a person who likes to get into a story’s universe, understand how it ticks and really feel the impact of a story’s course of events, logical fallacies and shortsightedness can ruin my experience.
Sadly, but not surprisingly, the tales to be told in Baron Weirwulf’s Haunted Library #38 value in-the-moment shock much more than they value anything making sense before or after the story. And, in some cases, these lapses in the storytellers’ judgement actually indicate some pretty terrible things.
Baron Weirwulf’s Haunted Library is actually part of a Charlton Comics Group series simply named Haunted. I assume Baron Weirwulf is the gentleman pictured in the upper left-hand corner of the cover, but he does not appear in #38. Also, I just want to say now, for a moment I made some odd assumptions about what the star on the cover next to his head meant. I still don’t actuallyknow what the star means here (suggestions are welcome) but I thought it a weird enough idea that it merited mention.
Inside the book are three stories; Sad-Eyed Sara, Last Of Its Kind, and The Most Beautiful Girl In The World. As you may have guessed from my credits listed above, only one of those stories actually has any creators credited. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
