Elvira’s Haunted Holidays House of Mystery Special

Elvira’s Haunted Holidays House of Mystery Special

Elvira’s Haunted Holidays House of Mystery Special is something I stumbled over several years ago. Even if I wasn’t a collector of Christmas comic books, this would’ve been a must have.

This book hails from a time when MTV still showed videos, mullets were (almost) still in fashion and horror movies abounded – much like Elvira’s cleavage.

Reading these stories is like borrowing Bob Burn’s time machine; the reader is catapulted back to 1986 with stories designed as O’Henrys to the times, touching on the materialism of the era as well as the fear of nuclear holocaust as prophesied by the Reagan Administration.

While dated, these are still fun stories seasoned with the wordily-titled Oh, What Fun To Sing A Slaying Song Tonight that could have jumped from the pages of EC’s stable of horror titles.