Scream!

Scream! was a short lived but very highly regarded horror themed weekly published by IPC from 24th March to 30th June 1984 (15 issues). Hosted by fictional 'editor' Ghastly McNasty (whose face was never shown, though readers were invited to draw what they thought he looked like under his cowl), it featured strips including Monster (developed by Alan Moore, though he wrote only the first part; later episodes were apparently written by John Wagner), The Dracula File (partly written by Simon Furman), The Nightcomers, Terror of the Cats (also by Furman), Tales from the Grave, Library of Death and A Ghastly Tale (all series' of short stories), Fiends and Neighbours (reprinted from Cor!) and probably the most popular strip of the bunch, The Thirteenth Floor, about a crazed computer running an apartment building. When Scream! was cancelled, apparently an indirect victim of the anti-horror hysteria prompted by clean-up campaigner Mary Whitehouse's campaign against 'video nasties', it was merged with Eagle, which inherited Monster and The Thirteenth Floor, though five Scream Holiday Specials were later released featuring reprints of old horror themed stories from previous IPC titles.