I have already queried the uber-nerd community on Facebook with this. (I got connections, Baby.) No response yet, so I figured I’d try to crowdsource it.
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MATTER, PEOPLE. Stop whatever you’re doing right now and attend to it. Shoot me an e-mail instead of commenting; thanks. 🙂
[“Oooooookay, Mr. Pete Harrison. Since you are the Internet’s resident vintage horror comic expert, maybe you or your friends can help me track down a comic from my childhood.
It was published in the late 70’s or early 80’s, and was a damn cool horror anthology. My parents bought it for me when I was around 7, on a family trip to Tennessee.
One story focused on a creepy kid who lived with his family by the ocean — he might have been a lighthouse keeper’s son. He finds a huge, mysterious egg that washes up with the tide, takes it home, and secretly cares for it. It hatches into a monster.
Another story was about a woman whose sprawling garden got possessed by demons or ghosts — these long viny plants sprouted screaming skulls at their tips. It had a happy ending — she vanquished the baddies. The last line of the story explained that she paved over the garden with concrete, and assiduously repaved it again every year.
Anyone know what I’m talking about?”]
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 