HALLOWEEN MONTH! PUZZLE #44: Wordy Web

HALLOWEEN MONTH!
PUZZLE #44

WORDY WEB

Well, it's October, so why don't we kick off this month with a Halloween-themed puzzle? Heck, why don't I try to make every puzzle this month Halloween-themed? Yep, all this month, the FINAL ANSWER of each puzzle will have something to do with the horror genre, so be sure to sick around... if you dare!

This Web's set up with Circles and Strands, but there are no letters with which the words are woven. To complete this puzzle, enter the answers to the Circles' clues (numbered 1 to 6) clockwise around the concentric rings of the Web, though it's up to you to determine the starting point for each Circle. All of the Circles' clues are presented in order. To help figure out the Circles' staring points, fill in the Strands' answers (marked with A to L) starting at each respective letter and traverse the Web from left to right. Some of the strands have only one answer, while others have two.

Once you've completely filled in the Web, the letters in the red spaces, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: the name of a horror anthology comic book (HINT: It's not Tales From the Crypt; too many letters in that title)

CIRCLES

1) Mad Men's Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, for example: 2 wds.

    _____ Is Born (Streisand musical): 2 wds.

    Former richest man in the world Carlos

    Final single from No Doubt's Return of Saturn

2) Flashdance song originally written about a serial killer (obviously, the lyrics were heavily altered...)

    "...Give or take a few": 2 wds.

    Suffix for "human" or "fact"

    Controversial Melancholia director Lars von _____

    Comedian Bob who holds the record for hosting the Oscars the most times

3) San Francisco-to-Las Vegas dir. (okay, it's the opposite of WNW)

    Ye _____ Shoppe

    Need for Speed: Hot _____

    Bolt fastener named after a letter: hyph.

4) Annoying sidekick from the original ThunderCats

    Hard to understand (like many of my puzzles, no doubt...)

    Galahad's title

5) Titular puppet "Cousin" from a late '90s Nickelodeon sitcom

    ilovebees, Perplex City, or Xi, for short

6) _____ Tunes (series of animated shorts)

STRANDS
A) Haul out to the repair shop
B) Honda's luxury vehicle division
C) Kiss' Gene Simmons or Primus' Les Claypool
D) Helen who won an Oscar playing the Queen in The Queen
    A little piggy?
E) They'd probably get offended if you called them an "Eskimo"
    Speaker on a soapbox
F) A Momentary _____ Reason (Pink Floyd album): 2 wds.
    Mr. Tumnus' residence
G) Captain Hook's right-hand man (before you ask, Disney's Hook does have a right hand)
    Hapless hunter from Circle #6: 2 wds.
H) Sailor's delight, at night: 2 wds.
    ♪Pokémon: _____ catch 'em all!♪
I) 110% on a test, maybe: hyph.
    Late cartoonist Dave who created "The Lighter Side of..." for MAD
J) Cross-dressing comedy starring Dustin Hoffman
K) Jimmy Neutron's Ultralord-obsessed friend
L) Circle section

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured that one out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a version you can print out!