In 1991, after six years of success publishing comic book reprints, including the EC Horror Comics, Gladstone Publishing took the bold plunge into the original comics market with three horror omnibus magazines: Grave Tales, Maggots and Dread of Night. The run included 8 bimonthly magazines of 48 pages each - with full color painted covers and black and white interiors. Madraven, the Mistress of Castle Stark, debuted in the first issue of Maggots, and starred in the two comic-size seasonal suspense specials.
Filled with fabulous fright fables written by the likes of Jack C Harris, Bell Pearson, Steve Skeates and Nicola Cuti, and drawn by suck luminaries as Joe Staton, Gray Morrow, Steve Stiles and Val Mayerik, all ten of these 'horrible' gems are available only as a complete set - $55.00

• Pretender to the Throne
• Proper Test for a Demon
• Deadly Mistake
• Physician Heal Thyself
• Wanna-Be

• Deadly Developments
• The Jolly Corner
• Black and White and Red All Over
• Simons's Salvation
• The Springfield Werewolf
• Monster Maker

• Dog Gone!
• Vigil
• Sredni Vashtar
• Salina - Part 3
• Cycle of the Vampire
• RoleModel

Maggots #2

Maggots #3

• The Big Greasy
• Scary-Go-Round
• Horror You Today
• Sore Spot
• Don't Touch that Dial
• Caged In

• A Dinner to Remember
• Byte of the Werewolf
• Salina - Part 1
• Under the Rug
• L.A. Flaw
• Puppet Man

• Some Kind of Beautiful
• Little Sara's Dolls
• Perchance to Dream
• Prima Facie Evidence
• Chemical Dependents
• Identity Crisis

• The Familiar
• He's a Charmer
• Upgrade
• Withdrawal
• Hell Well
• Blood Island

• The Wolf Woman of Roxbury
• Jelly
• Salina - part2
• A born Werewolf
• Twisted Channels
• Monsters 101

• Stakeout
• Along Came Kletus
• Kletus Amungus

• Song of the Silkie