The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!
#16 - Haunted Horror: Candles for the Undead! and Much More! (Volume 4)
(August 2016)
IDW,
2010 Series
- Price
- 24.99 USD
- Pages
- 160
- On-sale Date
- 2016
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IDW Publishing
- Brand
-
Yoe Books!; IDW
- ISBN
-
978-1-63140-671-3
- Barcode
- 9781631406713 52499
- Editing
- Craig Yoe; Clizia Gussoni; Steve Banes
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure
- Reprints
-
from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #10 (March 2014) which is reprinted - from Mask Comics (Rural Home, 1945 series) #1 (February-March 1945)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.67 page
- Characters
- "Madam" Clizia Gussoni
Indexer Notes
On endpapers.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.67 page
- Characters
- Craig "Forelock the Warlock" Yoe
Indexer Notes
On endpapers.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.66 page
- Characters
- Steve "Mr. Karswell" Banes
Indexer Notes
On endpapers.
Haunted Horror
credits, title page / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Normal Nodel (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Vince Alascia (spot illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
A Day of Panic
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #22 (December 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Preliminary concept sketch for comic book cover.
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #10 (March 2014) which is reprinted
- from Mask Comics (Rural Home, 1945 series) #1 (February-March 1945)
-
The Cult Of The 13 Ghosts
comic story / 10.75 pages
- 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
Indexer Notes
First page left 25 % blank.
The Monster's Ghost
comic story / 8 pages
- 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!
comic story / 6 pages
- 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
Indexer Notes
Inspired by "La Morte" (1887) by Guy de Maupassant, translated as "Was It A Dream?" in English (1910).
Hand of Fate
comic story / 7 pages
- 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
comic story / 7 pages
- 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!
comic story / 6 pages
- 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
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #11 (June 2014) which is reprinted
- from Super-Mystery Comics (Ace Magazines, 1940 series) #v6#3 (December 1946)
-
The Witches Come at Midnight!
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Peter, the Rooster; Joel Rainey; Ezra Rainey; Mrs. Rainey; Satan
- Synopsis
- Witches (along with their master Satan himself), converge every night at midnight at the old Rainey farm terrorizing the family. One night when young Joel is attacked by the monsters, his pet rooster "Peter" arrives and scares off the creatures who think he's Chanticleer, the fabled rooster.
- Reprints
- from City of the Living Dead (Avon, 1952 series) (1952)
-
Hallahan's Head!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- J. V. Fletcher; Hallahan; Otongo; Lisa; Charlie
- Synopsis
- J.V. Fletcher wants his partner Hallahan murdered so he can take over the entire rubber plantation business they own together in Brazil. He hires Otongo, a native witch doctor, to do the deed and to send Fletcher proof of the murder by sending him Hallahan's head. After the deed is done and Fletcher returns to America, the severed head of Hallahan stalks him for revenge.
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #25 (January 1954)
-
Day of Panic
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The small town of Twin Oaks is besieged by panic and paranoia when word gets out that a vampire is living among the townsfolk.
- Reprints
- from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #22 (December 1953)
-
Hand
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man is killed by the skeletal hand of his unborn/undeveloped twin that was grafted onto his ankle before birth.
- Reprints
- from Mister Mystery (Stanley Morse, 1951 series) #1 (September 1951)
-
Candles for the Undead
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A down-and-out candle maker is desperate, and cannot buy animal fat to make more product. After his fiancee leaves him, he becomes desperate, and resorts to digging graves to steal the bodies for making his wares. This, of course, comes with consequences.
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #29 (November 1954)
-
Demons of the Sun
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A man suffering through intense heat out in the jungle curses the sun. The local witchdoctor curses him and he is sent to the sun to suffer at the hands of Soltan the Sun King.
- Reprints
- from Black Cat Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #40 (October 1952)
-
The Locked Door
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Young artist Tom Daly wants to paint the macabre, because it fascinates him. Encountering horror master painter Peter Gynt and spending a dreadful night at his lonely mansion will change his life forever.
- Reprints
- from Worlds of Fear (Fawcett, 1952 series) #6 (September 1952)
-
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #12 (August 2014) which is reprinted
- from Witches Tales (Harvey, 1951 series) #22 (December 1953)
-
- Keywords
- ghouls; subways
Indexer Notes
This book credits the pencils to Kremer.
Code of the Shadowmaster
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Carnival silhouette artist Linc Mars learns to cut magic silhouettes from a burial sackcloth. He uses his abilities to amass riches, but runs out of magic and has to die by his own scissors.
- Reprints
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #30 (January 1955)
-
A Dead Ball
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Coach Will Rawson; Dick Rawson; Bud Fowler; Jack Fowler
- Synopsis
- Coach Will Rawson is a mad man constantly driving his football players to play through injuries without any mercy to their wellbeing. After one of his players (Bud Fowler) dies on the field, Bud's brother Jack exacts revenge on the coach through murder, turning his head into a new football.
- Reprints
- from Mysterious Adventures (Story Comics, 1951 series) #14 (June 1953)
-
Bride of Death
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-1322
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Joseph; Delores Martiz; Mario
- Synopsis
- Joseph needs a fresh corpse for his experiments, which is provided when Delores Martiz dies on her wedding day. He brings her back from the dead, and then once more, but cannot win her for himself.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into Darkness (Pines, 1952 series) #7 (December 1952)
-
[no title indexed]
Chilly Chamber Music: Songs from the Spook Box / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- They saw three little fishes...
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #22 (March 1954)
-
[no title indexed]
Chilly Chamber Music: Songs from the Spook Box / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When day is done and shadows fall...
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #22 (March 1954)
-
Your Head for Mine
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A woman convinces her lover to kill her rich husband. The lover does so by blowing the husband's head off with a gun. After the wife and her lover get married and cash in on the dead man's insurance, the headless corpse of the husband comes back from the dead looking for a new head.
- Reprints
-
from Journey into Fear (Superior, 1951 series) #10 (November 1952)
-
The Cloak of a Corpse
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1298
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a man steals a hanged man's robe, the dead comes to visit him and retrieves his cloak.
- Reprints
- from Out of the Shadows (Pines, 1952 series) #7 (January 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
This reprint certain of the Celardo/Mastroserio art credits.
Mind Over Matter
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A doctor learns the secret of entering the minds of people from a dying mystic. When he attempts to prove this to his colleagues, he enters the mind of a homicidal maniac and is almost killed by his evil thoughts. After the demonstration, the doctor realizes how dangerous entering the minds of men is and refuses to make the secret known to anyone.
- Reprints
- from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #15 (January 1953)
-
Murderers' Row
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Strange things happen in and around Professor Caglio's wax exhibition of murderers through history. Can Elsa and boyfriend Terry escape when trapped in the storage room?
- Reprints
- from The Thing (Charlton, 1952 series) #5 (October-November 1952)
-
And Then What????
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Doctor Death (host)
- Synopsis
- Psychiatrist helps man overcome his delusion of turning into a bat.
- Reprints
- from This Magazine Is Haunted (Fawcett, 1951 series) #11 (June 1953)
-
The Clock
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #20 (November 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Reproduced from original artwork.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.67 page
- Characters
- "Madam" Clizia Gussoni
Indexer Notes
On endpapers.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.67 page
- Characters
- Craig "Forelock the Warlock" Yoe
Indexer Notes
On endpapers.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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Haunted Horror
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[Caution. Do not read this book ...]
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A Day of Panic
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[no title indexed]
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The Cult Of The 13 Ghosts
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The Monster's Ghost
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Epitaph!
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Hand of Fate
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Prey for the Vampire Horde
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13.
Midnight Limited!
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[no title indexed]
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The Witches Come at Midnight!
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Hallahan's Head!
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Day of Panic
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Hand
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Candles for the Undead
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Demons of the Sun
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The Locked Door
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[no title indexed]
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Code of the Shadowmaster
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A Dead Ball
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Bride of Death
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["They saw three little fishes..."]
Chilly Chamber Music: Songs from the Spook Box -
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["When day is done and shadows fall..."]
Chilly Chamber Music: Songs from the Spook Box -
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Your Head for Mine
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The Cloak of a Corpse
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Mind Over Matter
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Murderers' Row
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And Then What????
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The Clock
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[Haunted Horror: Candles for the Undead ...]
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- Alan Hutchinson
- Claus Simonsen
- James Zee
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