The Horrors

Star Publications’ The Horrors (1953–1954) was a short-lived, five-issue anthology comic that leaned hard into the era’s fascination with the macabre, offering a rotating gallery of grim tales and eerie visuals. The series is most closely associated with the lurid, eye-catching covers and interiors of artist L. B. Cole, alongside the work of George Peltz and Robert Pious, who helped define its shadowy, pre-Code horror aesthetic. Though brief, it stands as a vivid example of the unregulated, sensational fright comics that thrived just before the industry’s mid-1950s shift toward self-censorship.