{"product_id":"foul-play-and-other-stories-hardcover-1","title":"Foul Play and Other Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJack Davis\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eAl Feldstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGrant Geissman\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he imbued his stories with a playful sense of (gallows) humor that made his innocent victims more eye-poppingly terrified, his ax-murders more gleefully gruesome, and his revenge-seeking corpses more morbidly motivated than any other EC artist. These horror and suspense tales -- from the pages of \u003cem\u003eVault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eShock SuspenStories\u003c\/em\u003e -- include frightful fare such as \"Hyde and Go Shriek!\", \"Tombs-Day!\", \"Witch Witch's Witch!\", \"Head-Room!\", \"Chop Talk!\", \"Coffin Spell!\", and more, all leavened with the cackling, pun-laced wit of scripter Al Feldstein and illuminated as only the virtuoso brushwork of Jack Davis could present them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the standout story has to be \"Foul Play,\" the most infamous of all EC horror stories, in which a baseball team takes revenge on a murderous rival player by, um (spoiler alert), \"repurposing\" various parts of his anatomy for one final blood-spattered, organ-scattered inning. You'll never see a baseball game the same way again. And as gruesome as that sounds (and is!), Davis deftly pulls it off with aplomb and a mordant sense of absurd humor that will have you cringing and laughing at the same time. Plus, not one, not two, but three Davis-driven adaptations of haunting short stories by Ray Bradbury: \"The Coffin!\", \"Let's Play Poison!\", and \"The Black Ferris!\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe round out this volume with all three of Davis's EC science-fiction adventures, and all five of his aerial war stories from the legendary EC title, \u003cem\u003eAces High\u003c\/em\u003e. 40 stories in all, most scripted by EC legend Al Feldstein, plus in-depth commentary by EC experts Thommy Burns and Grant Geissman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 10.1 x 7.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47210190078201,"sku":"9781683969549","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/M__OeHG5-89781683969549_9a3bc0de-e0b5-4be9-8063-602a68f188c5.webp?v=1768072214","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/foul-play-and-other-stories-hardcover-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}