Last year, I co-wrote an article about “killer creature” man vs. animal themed stories in vintage men’s adventure magazines for HORRORHOUND, a nicely-produced periodical about horror and science fiction movies,…
Category: Snake menace
Men’s adventure magazine covers that stoked “ophidiophobia” (and some ophidiophilia)…
Most species of snakes are harmless. Relatively few people, at least in the United States, ever have personal encounters with snakes that pose a real threat to humans. Nonetheless, many…
Snakes in Men’s Pulp Mags: scarier than Snakes on a Plane
There’s a subgenre of pre-World War II pulp magazines called “weird menace” which features good-looking women and men being menaced (and often tortured) by evil villains and freaks. There’s a…
Why’d it have to be snakes, Indy? ‘Cause they’re frakkin’ scary!
Remember that snake scene in the original Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)? Indiana (Harrison Ford) looks down at the slithering mass in the “Well of Souls”…