Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Gredown's Ghosts of Terror #1


Gredown's Ghosts of Terror #1 was published in 1976:


The cover - likely by Phil Belbin - is swiped from Tom Sutton's cover for Charlton's Ghostly Haunts #49:


The ghostly background figure is inspired by panels on the final page of the lead story The Edge of Fear:


The Edge of Fear also appeared in Gredown's Edge of Fear, which recycled the cover to Ghosts of Terror #1:


The contents:

The Edge of Fear, originally published in Ghostly Haunts #49, April 1976
...To Die A Witches' Death, originally published in Ghost Manor #27, January 1976
A Special Victim, originally published in Beyond the Grave #4, February 1976
A Quiet Place To Die!, originally published in Beyond the Grave #4, February 1976
That Personal Touch!, originally published in Ghostly Tales #120, March 1976
...If Gold Be Life!, originally published in Ghostly Haunts #48, February 1976
The Exorcism, originally published in Ghostly Haunts #48, February 1976
The Hell Pit, originally published in Ghostly Tales #118, November 1975
The Werewolf's Ghost, originally published in Haunted #26, March 1976
The Whispering Box, originally published in Haunted #25, January 1976

This issue also has a contents page:


Contents pages such as this were a staple of US horror magazines, and the earliest Gredown magazines followed this trend - however, the contents page was readily sacrificed if the prime real estate was required for a story. Note also the rather formal No. 1 Vol.1. 

All of the stories in this issue hail from Charlton, and I can confirm that almost all of these stories were reprinted - sometimes more than once - in other Gredown issues, predominantly in the $1.00 editions. Indeed, some of these stories were also published in K.G.Murray titles. (There are two stories I have yet to see reprinted, but I daresay in the fullness of time these will also be confirmed).

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