Tombstone Manor is a creepy old mansion and a location from the original series, The Flintstones and its comic and storybook spinoffs.
Background[]
Tombstone Manor is the home of the Gruesome Family where Weirdly Gruesome lives along with his wife, Creepella, their son Gobby, the mysterious Uncle Ghastly and their many monstrous pets. It is located in Bedrock just behind the Flintstone home.
Description[]
Exterior[]
It is a large multi-story stone building of dark colors in a severely dilapidated state and seemingly sinking into the ground, giving it a leaning appearance. It is covered in cracks and vines, and its surrounding lawn is filled with unruly crabgrass that has actual hostile crabasauruses. Vulturedactyls and batasauruses also dot the building's roof and windows.
Interior[]
The interior of the manor is filled with Stone-Age furnishing that is as in a decaying state as the outside, with cracks, discoloration, mold, vines and spiderwebs littering many of the stone walls and furniture. Dozens of vicious animals and monsters reside around every corner as well. Numerous catacombs and trapdoors are located all over the house.
Appearances[]
- "The Gruesomes" and "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes" (The Flintstones)
- "The Birthday Present" (The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show)
Publications
- "The Flintstones Meet the Gruesomes" (The Flintstones (Gold Key Comics) Issue № 24)
- "The Flintstones Meet the Gruesomes" picture book (A Big Golden Book, 1965)
Cave Kids (Gold Key)
- "Has Anybody Seen Schneider?" (Issue № 8)
- "The Birthday Blast" (Issue № 9)
- "Home, Horrid Home" (Issue № 10)
- "A Need to Be Needed" (Issue № 11)
- "That the Way the Crystal Ball Bounces" (Issue № 12)
- "The Lost Hiss-s-s!" (Issue № 13)
- "Teacher's Regret" (Issue № 14)
- "The New Look" (Issue № 15)
The Flintstones (Charlton Comics)
- "Three Wishes with Fred the Gruesomes" (Issue № 6)
- "A Gruesome Lunch" (Issue № 22)
- "A Nightmare on Broad Daylight!" (Issue № 24)
- "Fred Loves Creepella" (Issue № 33)
- "Dinner at the Gruesomes" (Issue № 39)
- "Sit for a Spell!" (Issue № 41)
- "Did Your Ever See a Dream Walking?" (Issue № 49)
The Flintstones (Archie Comics)
- "Gruesome's Grew Some" (Issue № 4)
- "Wake Up Call" (Issue № 5)
- "Dread and Breakfast" (Issue № 15)"
- "Something Gruesome This Way Comes" (Issue № 24)
The Flintstones and the Jetsons
- "The Groovy Gruesomes"
- "This Old Gruesome House"
Notes/Trivia[]
- In The New Fred and Barney Show episode "Blood Brothers", a somewhat similar spooky manor is located behind the Flintstone home, however it is vacant and only briefly rented by Count Rockula and his wife before they moved to the Deadrock Arms Condorstonium.