10.03.2010

Like a Chicken with Its Head Cut Off...

Everything seems to've been made soooo safe + sanitized for Halloween nowadays. There was a certain sense of danger back in the 1970s, what with LSD-laced temporary tattoos + razor-blade-filled apples... ringing the doorbell at the 'crazy old man' house (and, karmically, in my neighborhood, my house is the 'crazy old man' house + I am evidently the 'crazy old man'...)

So, straight from the crazy old man, here's some candy that'll lacerate the roof of your mouth + make your belly-sack weep red tears:

Uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga's classic 1925 short story, 'La Gallina Degollada,' adapted in 1978 for the comics page by the classic Argentine writer + artist team of Carlos Trillo + Alberto Breccia... (published in English as "The Decapitated Chicken" or, as we find here, "The Slaughtered Chicken")...











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More to come if anybody shows any interest...

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2 comments:

  1. Zwolf03 October, 2010 10:11

    Cool! Reminds me a lot of "Child's Play" by Villy Sorensen, which is one of the most disturbing short stories ever (which is why Ramsey Campbell picked it to lead off his great _Fine Frights: Stories That Scared Me_ collection).

    Yep, put up more o' these!

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  2. Igor03 October, 2010 16:14

    Breccia, man... I'll post some more scary (or funny) Breccia horror comics this month, for sure. Dude was a compositional genius... the repeated panels, the increasing use of red in the last pages... those super-creepy boys... Quiroga's prob'ly best-known for a story called "The Pillow" that got included in some lit-flavored horror collections (y'know, the ones that remember Guy Du Maupassant) + was evidently required reading in school in Uruguay.

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