''Terror Tales'' was the name of two

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publications: a

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of the

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genre of the 1930s, and a

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in the 1960s and 1970s.

Pulp magazine

''Terror Tales'' was originally published by

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. The first issue was published in September 1934 One of the most successful horror magazines, it was joined shortly afterwards (1935) with its sister horror pulp, '' Horror Stories'', also from the same publisher. Some of the writers whose work appeared in ''Terror Tales'' included E. Hoffmann Price, Wayne Rogers,

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(who later wrote nonfiction books for children),

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, Paul Ernst,

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and

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.''Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction'', Michael Ashley, Taplinger Pub. Co., 1978. . page 234. Rudolph Belarski provided several covers for the magazine. ''Terror Tales'' ceased publication in March 1941.

Horror comics magazine

A later publication also called ''Terror Tales'' was a black-and-white

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magazine published by

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. There were 46 issues, from March 1969 to January 1979.Terror Tales
at the

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. ''Terror Tales'' followed many of the conventions of the horror comic genres, such as the use of scantily-clad

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covers.

References

External links

Gallery of ''Terror Tales'' covers
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