
by Erin Nicole
Even ghosts get dressed in the morning.

by Erin Nicole
Even ghosts get dressed in the morning.

by Barye Phillips
Some doors are best left locked, I guess.

by C.C. Beall
This is from 1934. It proves that the customer is always right.
Mystery Tales was one of the many pulp magazines from West Fiction Publishing Company. From 1938 to 1940, over the course of 9 issues, Mystery Tales brought readers stories of cults, criminals, demons, femme fatales, and damsels in distress. Though I’m sure the stories were fine, the magazine is today mostly remembered and sought after by collectors for its extremely lurid covers. Below are 7 of the covers of Mystery Tales!

by Joe DeVito
A very old friend indeed. This is from 1987.

by John Walter Scott
This frightening cover is from 1939. Do not allow your children to enroll at The Devil’s University.
This nature trail is located a few miles away from my house. When the weather is just right, I like to go down there and walk along the path and just enjoy the peace and beauty of nature.
What many people do not know, even those who visit the park on a daily basis, is that if you take a step off the nature trail and follow an overgrown path through the trees, you can find a historic cemetery that has sat in the park since the town was founded in the 1850s.
It’s rare that I visit the nature trail without also visiting the cemetery. It’s a reminder of the people who were here before me and who lived on this land before it became a park where people jog, ride their bicycles, and look at their phones when they should be looking at the world around them.
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Welcome to October on the Shattered Lens!
Here’s hoping this month finds you with joy, family, friends, fiends, ghouls, and ghosts!
Today is also the start of the Shattered Les’s annual horrorthon! Sit back, enjoy the reviews, the art, and the music videos, and have a great month of ghoulish fun!