Terror Tales was the name of twoAmerican publications: apulp magazine of theweird menace genre of the 1930s, and ahorror comic in the 1960s and 1970s.
Terror Tales was originally published byPopular Publications. The first issue was published in September 1934[1]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 inTerror Tales includedE. Hoffmann Price, Wayne Rogers,Wyatt Blassingame (who later wrote nonfiction books for children),Ray Cummings,Paul Ernst,Arthur Leo Zagat andArthur J. Burks.[2] Rudolph Belarski provided several covers for the magazine.Terror Tales ceased publication in March 1941.[2]
A later publication also calledTerror Tales was a black-and-whitehorror comics magazine published byEerie Publications.[3] There were 46 issues, from March 1969 to January 1979.[4]
Terror Tales followed many of the conventions of the horror comic genres, such as the use of scantily-claddamsel in distress covers.
