Thursday, October 15, 2026

Reading Room BORIS KARLOFF TALES OF MYSTERY "Grave DIggings"

Who Could be a Better Narrator About a Dinosaur Run Amuck in the Present than...Boris Karloff?

Art by George Wilson
Boris (who died in 1969) still does the hosting duties in this never-reprinted tale from Gold Key's Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery #71 (1976)!
What a kool ghoul!
Scripted by Arnold Drake and illustrated by Frank Bolle, it's a variation on the "dinosaur resurrected/defrosted in the present by people unaware it was there" trope.
Bonus: the uncropped original painting used for the cover.
Note how tightly the printed version crops in to the dino and tower, losing the wide perspective that emphaisized how big the glowing reptile is in comparison to his environment!

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