Haunted Horror
#23
(August 2016)
IDW,
2012 Series
- Price
- 4.99 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 2016-08-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IDW Publishing
- Brand
- Yoe Comics
- Barcode
- 827714004090 02311
- Editing
- Stephen Banes (editor); Clizia Gussoni (editor); Craig Yoe (editor); Mike Howlett (contributing editor); Tillmann Courth (contributing editor); Tommy O'Brien (contributing editor)
The Monster Maker
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Carl Bascom
- Synopsis
- The creations of horror story writer Carl Bascom come alive in a parallel world. If he destroys the manuscript, his fictitious monsters die. The monsters come looking for Bascom to prevent their annihilation.
- Reprints
-
from Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #19 (January 1954)
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Ghost with a Torch
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A restless ghost is allowed to come out of her grave and visit her husband. She's horrified to find him with another woman. That woman then tries to stab her husband in the back, and while the ghost has the ability to warn him, she doesn't so he will die and join her in the afterlife.
- Reprints
- from Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #13 (October 1954)
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....?
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mona Harris; Paul Fowler
- Synopsis
- Mona Harris welcomes her fiancé back from a jungle expedition. But strange things have happened to Paul Fowler since he survived a plane crash in the wilderness and was nurtured back to health by living protoplasm.
- Reprints
- from Worlds of Fear (Fawcett, 1952 series) #8 (January 1953)
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Indexer Notes
The story title is NOT unknown, in this case "....?" is the story title
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
[no title indexed]
Chilly Chamber Music / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #23 (May 1954)
-
[no title indexed]
Chilly Chamber Music / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #23 (May 1954)
-
Death by Witchcraft!
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Dora; Arnold Cavendish; Cornelius Cavendish
- Synopsis
- A woman becomes a witch to get revenge on her rich husband who jilted her after he inherited a fortune.
- Reprints
- from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #4 (July 1951)
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Indexer Notes
The reprint credits Donahue for both pencils and inks.
Help Us to Die!
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jim Torrence; Marjorie Torrence
- Synopsis
- Jim and Marjorie Torrence steal an Egyptian mummy from the museum. Learning the secret of eternal life from the long dead king, they apply the drink to themselves - with fateful consequences.
- Reprints
- from Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #13 (October 1953)
-
The Bat and the Brain
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Don; Barbara
- Synopsis
- Don, a scientist, discovers a way to control a mechanical bat with his brain waves. However a winged skeleton ghost arrives and wants to use the bat itself to terrorize its victims so it can feed off their fear.
- Reprints
- from Skeleton Hand in Secrets of the Supernatural (American Comics Group, 1952 series) #2 (November-December 1952)
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Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Monster Maker
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2.
Ghost with a Torch
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3.
....?
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4.
[no title indexed]
Chilly Chamber Music -
5.
[no title indexed]
Chilly Chamber Music -
6.
Death by Witchcraft!
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7.
Help Us to Die!
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8.
The Bat and the Brain
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- Boris Ammerlaan
- Ken Austin
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
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