THE COBWEBBED ROOM

Monsters and horror in British popular culture

Sunday, November 04, 2007

'CADBURYS MONSTERS'

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Well I haven't come across any pictures for 'Cadburys Monsters' cholate bars yet, but here is a picture of a promotional badge, ...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

'TREBOR MUMMIES'

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I got these screen captures sent to me from an advert for 'Trebor Mummies' from 1980, is there anyone that remembers these or has an...
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Friday, November 02, 2007

'HORROR BAGS' - Super horrid picture cards

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The first post I did about these cards was that it featured only one of the six cards, now with kindness of Gutter from http://annexxed.blog...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007

'HORROR BAGS' - Ribs and Bones packets

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Here is another 2 items to the growing Horror bags archive, this time it is empty wrappers of Vampire vinegar flavour Ribs and Salt and Vine...
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'HORROR BAGS' - Vinyl swimming bag

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Well at last after probally 30 years I have now got a photo of the Horror bags swimming bag, here in the photo you can see that it is called...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

'Monster Stickers'

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I remember seeing these back in the late 1970's at a local toy shop, I think they were originally made in America, but as they are still...
Sunday, September 30, 2007

'GLOW IN THE DARK STICKER'

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I had this monster glow-in-the-dark sticker sent to me via email, they are not sure where they actually got it from. He said that it may hav...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

'CREEPY COMIX' - Creepy Sleepy tales/Fangs of fear

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'Creepy Sleepy Tales' from ...
Sunday, September 02, 2007

TV tie-in - 'SHADOWS'

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This long running Thames TV show was aimed at children ran from 3rd September 1975 to 1st November 1978. Essentially a supernatural antholog...
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Friday, August 10, 2007

'COUNT DRACULA'S SECRET' ICE LOLLY ADS

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Who remembers these back in the 1970's? 'Count Dracula's secret' ice lollys, black ice lolly with blood red soft centre. Hop...
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'CREEPY COMIX' - 'Frankie Stein' Frankenstein

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For your viewing pleasure here is a great peice of art from the popular comicstrip 'Frankie Stein', this image is almost on first vi...
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CREEPY COMIX - 'Scream Inn'/'The Spooktacular 7'

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Scream Inn is in my opinion certainly one of the most atmospheric of all the comicstrips featured in the Fleetway line. The illustrations we...
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Friday, August 03, 2007

CREEPY COMIX - Ken Reid art

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One of the Fleetway comics main artists was Ken Reid - The artist's artist, creator of Frankie Stein, Faceache, etc. The scans here are ...
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Friday, July 06, 2007

TV tie-in - 'THE HAUNTING OF CASSIE PALMER'

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The TV tie-in sections will concentrate on those spooky shows that were shown during the 60's, 70's, and 1980's, of which a vast...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

CREEPY COMIX - 'Hire a horror'

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'Hire a Horror' was a comicstrip that appeared in 'Cor' comic. This was about an agency that hired out monsters etc to clien...
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Thursday, June 07, 2007

CREEPY COMIX - 'Grimly Feendish'

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Here is another comicstrip character that first appeared in 'Wham' [along side George Michael - no of course not, could you imagine ...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

CREEPY COMIX - Krazy Spooky issue/Buster spooky stories

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Although 'Krazy' comic had not featured any spooky type strips for 70 odd issues, there came a special themed issue from 26th Febuar...
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Monday, May 28, 2007

CREEPY COMIX - 'FRANKIE STEIN'

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The Creepy Comix sections of The Cobwebbed Room will feature the several spooky type comicstrips that appeared in British comics during the ...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007

'BEAVER BOOK OF HORROR'

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Here is another great book I used to have when I was much younger, The beaver book of horror by Daniel Farson [grandson to Bram Stoker]. Wha...
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Sunday, April 15, 2007

'HORROR BAGS' super horrid picture cards ad

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Well here is another Horor Bags ad from 1976/77. This time for Super Horrid Picture cards, a set of six cards that form a big? scary 6inch s...
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