(Continued from Poe 1970, Pt. 1)
HORROR 5
"IL FARO"
I've been looking forward to getting back to the 1970s for some time now. So many items have turned up over the last several years, I decided the only sane way to keep things organized on this blog, was to start the 1970s over from scratch, in order to post or re-post items in any semblance of chronological order. As it happens, this early in, I now focus on a real oddball item, even for this project.
Apparently, the very last story that Edgar Allan Poe began writing before he died was called...
"THE LIGHTHOUSE"
Begun in 1849, the title “The Lighthouse” was assigned by George E. Woodberry, who first published the text of pages 2-4 in THE LIFE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE (1909).
Author Robert Bloch finished Poe's story, which was then published in the January-February 1953 issue of FANTASTIC, from Ziff-Davis.
It was then reprinted in FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #53 (February 1969 / Warren Publications), "illustrated" by photos from various horror movies via editor Forrest J. Ackerman!
And then it turned up as an "illustrated story" in Italy, courtesy of Gino Sansoni Editore's HORROR #5 (April 1970). The art was by Dino Battaglia, who for many years held the record for the most number of Poe comics adaptations
(10 in all from 1968 to 1981). If this had been an actual comics adaptation, it would have been his 4th. But, you do what you can.
Copies of HORROR #5 are currently available from the Fumetto Online online store, as well as on Ebay Italy, but at the moment, I'm not prepared to pay the outragiously-inflated SHIPPING costs associated with buying from Italy, which in my previous experience has consistently been the most obscenely-overpriced of all the various countries I've dealt with. So, I hereby put out an appeal to any Poe fans, horror fans or comics fans reading this. If you have a copy of HORROR #5 and could send me HIGH-RES scans of the related pages, PLEASE do so! I'd very much appreciate the help.
Information taken from the EAPOE.org and Wikipedia sites.
HORROR 5
cover by MARCO ROSTAGNO (Gino Sansoni Editore / Italy / April 1970)
"IL FARO"
Story by Edgar Allan Poe & Robert Bloch / Art by DINO BATTAGLIA
Page 35
FANTASTIC ??
cover by ?? (Ziff-Davis / January-February 1953)
cover by BASIL GOGOS (Warren Publishing / January 1969)
"THE HORROR IN THE LIGHTHOUSE"
Story by Edgar Allan Poe & Robert Bloch
Illustrations courtesy of Forrest J. Ackermen
Page 11
Page 12
Page 13
Page 14
Page 15
Page 16
Page 17
Page 18
Page 19
Page 20
Ziff-Davis, Warren Publishing, Basil Gogos, Forrest J. Ackerman
and various movie studios.
Scan of HORROR #5 (1970) cover from the Fumetto Online site.
Scans of HORROR #5 (1970) interiors from the Matattatoio5
and Dark Italia sites.
Scan of FANTASTIC cover (1953) from the Wikipedia site.
Scans of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND #53
from MY collection.
Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa.
For more:
Read about Edgar Allen Poe at The Poe Museum site.
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at the Biography site.
Read about THE LIGHTHOUSE at the Criminal Element site.
Read the complete short story at the EAPoe.org site.
See the THE LIGHTHOUSE Gallery of Illustrations.
Read about the 2016 film LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER at the Moria site.
Read about the 2019 film THE LIGHTHOUSE at Rae's Media Notebook.
Audio:
Hear & buy "The Horror In The Lighthouse"
by Ian Gordon & Horror Babble (2021) at the Bandcamp site.
See the CHRONOLOGICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the ALPHABETICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
(Continued in Poe 1970, Pt. 3)
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