Haunted Horror #10

(March 2014)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Mr. Karswell / foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Art Fuentes (signed)

Inks

Art Fuentes (signed)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Ah-ha, friends!

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Cult of the 13 Ghosts (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob Powell

Inks

Bob Powell

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Semple Ridgedon; Meggar; Cult of Death

Synopsis

When landlord Semple Ridgedon finds a society of murderers lodging in one of his buildings, he tears the place down and rebuilds it in a modern way. But the evil ghosts appear anew and confront Ridgedon with his promise to join them in their cult of murder.

Reprints

• from This Magazine Is Haunted (Fawcett, 1951 series) #3 (February 1952)

Keywords

ghost; graveyard; slumlord

The Monster's Ghost! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Bruce Gibson

Synopsis

Ghost hunter Bruce Gibson buys a haunted house and challenges a satanic "dark stranger" to work his worst magic. He conjures a "monster's ghost" out of the bodies of four dead men, a black bull and drops of Gibson's blood. With the help of this powerful demon the dark stranger matches his wits against the ghost hunter's.

Reprints

• from Dark Mysteries (Master Comics, 1951 series) #2 (August-September 1951)

Keywords

ghost

Epitaph! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Sal Trapani (signed)

Inks

Sal Trapani (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Edgar Clay; Miriam Clay

Synopsis

Edgar Clay is distraught that his faithful wife Miriam fell to her death from a cliff when he was away at work. Overcome by lonely grief, he visits the cemetery she is buried at to feel consoltation. As night falls, he sees the silent dead rising from their graves rewriting their epitaphs to reveal the truths about how they lived their lives. He's shocked to see Miriam write her epitaph revealing that she fell off the cliff waiting her lover!

Reprints

• from Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #9 (March 1954)

Keywords

ghost; graveyard; headstone

Hand of Fate! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Moe Marcus

Inks

Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Elsted; Evard; Katrina; Karl Hansen

Synopsis

A farmer seems unconcerned when his farmhands are murdered by vampiric monsters on lonely foggy nights. It's later revealed that the vampires are the farmer's mute wife and daughter.

Reprints

• from Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #5 (March 1953)

Keywords

vampire

Prey for the Vampire Horde (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Lou Cameron (signed)

Inks

Lou Cameron (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Eric Barnes; Lydia; Count Pramevi

Synopsis

Eric Barnes, an audio engineer, is captured by sinister count Pramevi (anagram for 'vampire'). He is to build a recording machine to preserve the count's voice for all eternity. But Barnes constructs a supersonic weapon that disturbs the vampire's flight. Pramevi crashes to the ground.

Reprints

• from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #22 (September 1953)

Keywords

Austria; vampire

Midnight Limited! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Rudy Palais ?

Inks

Joe Certa

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Dave Barker

Synopsis

A man mistakenly gets on board a train of the dead, much to his regret.

Reprints

• from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #16 (December 1952)

Keywords

skeleton; train