{"product_id":"sucker-bait-and-other-stories-9781606996898","title":"Sucker Bait and Other Stories","description":"Even 60 years after their original release, in an era of explicit horror, EC Comics superstar Graham \"Ghastly\" Ingels's grisly pages retain the power to shock. His loving depictions of the endless corruption of flesh and nature made him the go-to guy for stories involving swamps, maniacs, and dismemberment -- and all three combined to best effect in one of the standouts of this collection of his stories: \"Horror We? How's Bayou?\" -- considered the single most spectacularly drawn of all of EC's horror stories, with a climax that would give body-horror king David Cronenberg nightmares. Ingels specialized in depicting the unimaginable. If you ever wondered what the vengeful, decaying corpse of an elephant stomping a woman to death would look like, it's in here (\"Squash...Anyone?\"). Or living rats sewn into the bodies of a tyrannical king and queen (\"A Grim Fairy Tale\")... or the results of injecting a \"poison-pen\" letter writer with literal poison and reducing him to, in the words of Al Feldstein's script, a \"foul-smelling, oozing pool of putrescence\" (\"Notes to You!\"). One of the two Ray Bradbury adaptations in the book, \"There Was an Old Woman\" (about a deceased crone who simply refuses to stay dead) provides the closest thing to a note of sweetness that you'll find here -- perhaps with the exception of the genuinely romantic \"A Little Stranger!\" and its loving marriage between a dead vampire and a dead werewolf. \u003cem\u003eSucker Bait And Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e features 25 classic stories from \u003cem\u003eTales From the Crypt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eShock Suspen-Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVault of Horror\u003c\/em\u003e, and Ingels and his \"Old Witch\" character's special showcase \u003cem\u003eHaunt of Fear\u003c\/em\u003e -- plus the usual fascinating historical, critical, and biographical material.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606996898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.24h x 7.34w x 0.89d","brand":"Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43150350090421,"sku":"9781606996898","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8e27567f-dc3b-4ae2-9780-47046ba3665b.jpg?v=1696346628","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sucker-bait-and-other-stories-9781606996898","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}