Monster of the Day #1270

Updated on January 6, 2016 By Ken Begg 14 Comments

This is a bit of a variation of the first cover of Ghosts, as featured here earlier. DC still had romance comics for girls back in the day, so maybe they figured this sort of cover would get crossover business?

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  • Gamera977

    Yes, you can be too thin for your wedding…

  • Flangepart

    So, vampires don’t show up in mirrors, but skeleton brides do…(sigh) Okay, who makes up these rules, and is there a union involved?

  • Actually the bride’s half vampire on her mother’s side. Thus the skeletal appearance in the mirror. It’s all in the handbook. Quite common really.

  • Rock Baker

    I could work a decent story from that image, I think.

  • Ken_Begg

    Cursed dress or cursed mirror? Works either way.

  • Luke Blanchard

    Your guess about trying to appeal to girls/romance readers is probably spot on. Gothic romance was a successful genre at the time – the first DARK SHADOWS paperbacks were packaged as gothic romance novels – and DC tried two titles aimed at its audience, THE DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE and THE SINISTER HOUSE OF SECRET LOVE.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Going by that ‘Bride Wore a Shroud’ story title, I think this is supposed to be a premonition of death rather than her being a ghost.

  • Gamera977

    I’d be so tempted if I were doing a modern version to painting two bags of silicon on the skeletal bride’s ribcage…

  • Flangepart

    The mirror lies! I always look fatter than I tell myself I am.

  • Rock Baker

    I’m thinking the dress. A good actress could really sink her teeth into a good possession role.

  • Ken_Begg

    What was the TV movie about the dress that turned you into a vampire? I never saw it, but I think there was something like that.

  • Luke Blanchard

    You might be thinking of a segment the Amicus film THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD. It starred Jon Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt and involved a cloak.

  • Ken_Begg

    No, I was thinking of 1990’s I’m Dangerous Tonight. The woman doesn’t become a vampire, but rather is possessed by evil.

  • Rock Baker

    Hmmm. Haven’t heard of that one.