Origin
Little ‘Orror was a vampire boy who delighted in terrifying the normal people who lived in his neighbourhood.
Creation
Little ‘Orror first appeared in Cracker #16 on 3rd May 1975, in a humour strip illustrated by David Easington.
Character Evolution
Little ‘Orror was “the nastiest little horror you could hope not to meet.” He lived in a suburban neighbourhood in a seemingly normal British town with his rarely seen parents, but seemed to have inherited his ghoulish nature from his grandmother, a witch, though being peculiar ran in the family, as his cousins included Little Madam, Little Devil, Little Angel and Little Marvel, and his Auntie in Transylvania once sent him an Easter Egg containing a dragon. He had several pets suitable to his fiendish personality, but the most notable and frequently seen was Beastly, his bat, who lived inside Little ‘Orror’s top hat. He apparently shared his town with the other characters from Cracker, as he occasionally turned up in their strips. When Cracker was cancelled and merged into Beezer, Little ‘Orror was one of the strips who survived the transition, where he continued to appear until 1979.
Notes
With the pressure of producing weekly anthologies containing as many as a dozen strips at a time, it wasn’t uncommon for ideas used successfully in one British comic to be shamelessly ripped off and recycled in another, rival title. Thus it might be expected that Draculass, who debuted in Monster Fun soon after Little ‘Orror first appeared, might be simply another such clone – a young vampire (this time female) living in Britain with normal human relatives. However, Draculass made her first appearance only just over a month after Little ‘Orror, and this short time frame would imply different creators merely tapped into the same zeitgeist, rather than copied from one another.