Pre-Code Classics
Journey Into Fear
You wanna snapshot of this baby? Check out these two tales.
A woman convinces her lover to kill her rich husband. The lover does so by blowing the husband's head off with a gun. After the wife and her lover get married and cash in on the dead man's insurance, the headless corpse of the husband comes back from the dead looking for a new head (‘Your Head For Mine’ -- like, what would YOU call it?!)
Why hasn’t this stuff been shortlisted for a Pulitzer! And, as if that were not quite enough:
Lorna is trained to hate men. She finds a witchcraft book. She begins a crusade of turning men into worms and squishing them. She accidentally squishes the man she loves. She takes poison, as worms come out of the walls to revenge themselves (‘Crawling Evil’).
(Hey, should I have included spoiler alerts there?) Wonderful!
