Horror Tales – The Sleazy, Blood-Soaked Grindhouse of Pre-Code Horror Comics!

If shock, sleaze, and supernatural revenge are your thing, then Horror Tales was one of the wildest horror mags of its era. Published by Eerie Publications in the late ’60s through the early ’80s, Horror Tales was part of a brutal, unapologetic wave of black-and-white horror comics that took inspiration from EC Comics’ classic pre-code titles—but cranked up the gore, violence, and twisted morality tales to exploitation-level insanity.

With gruesome artwork, lurid cover paintings, and stories featuring rotting corpses, vengeful spirits, and sadistic killers, Horror Tales reveled in the grindhouse side of horror storytelling. Unlike the more polished and literary horror comics from Warren Publishing, this was pure, pulpy terror, dripping with shock value and grotesque thrills. Often featuring reworked, redrawn, and repackaged horror stories from the ’50s, Horror Tales became infamous for its over-the-top carnage and nihilistic endings.

If you love your horror cheap, nasty, and absolutely fearless, Horror Tales was the horror magazine your parents would have burned if they found it under your bed. Drenched in blood, packed with screams—this is horror with no brakes.