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TALES OF TERROR-Edited by Boris Karloff-World Publishing...
...Karloff. The book includes a few old standbys, but for literate shivers such tales as Helen Hull's Clay-Shuttered Doors and Oliver Onions' brilliant The Beckoning Fair One make the collection well worth reading...
...remains, as always, a very funny show, a very clever show, and well worth your time and money. Boris Karloff does his usual excellent job of appearing menacing and bewildered by turns, and Jean Adair and Ruth McDevitt are hilariously convincing as Karloff's two aged rivals...
Addams, whom Publisher Bennett Cerf describes as "the gentlest and the kindliest old schizophrene," and for whose work Boris Karloff (who contributes a foreword) has a "whole-souled admiration," is not preoccupied only with married life. From the specialized madnesses of the bedroom and boudoir it is only a stroke of the Addams' hand to universal madness. Drawn and Quartered includes his drawings of and that haunting simile of the mind's disintegration: ski tracks divided by a large tree...
Many of these drawings need no captions. Their effect on Addams-addicts is as reassuring as the effect on the weird witch of the monstrous Karloff-like creature who brings in her breakfast in one of Addams' best-known drawings. "On, it's only you!" she says, glancing at him sidewise. "For a moment you gave me quite a start...