Haunted Horror
#19
(October 2015)
IDW,
2012 Series
- Price
- 3.99 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 2015-10-07
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IDW Publishing
- Brand
- Yoe Comics
- Barcode
- 827714004090 01911
- Editing
- Steve Banes; Clizia Gussoni; Craig Yoe; Tillman Courth (Contributing Editor); Mike Howlett (Contributing Editor); Tommy O'Brien (Contributing Editor); Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. (Contributing Editor)
Halloween Nightmare
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jim; un-named witchlike creature of darkness (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- On Halloween, some people gather together for a party and laugh off the idea of demons and ghouls. Just then, the lights go out and a creature appears from within some smoke...a creature who puts the people into a trance and orders them out on a fiendish scavenger hunt.
- Reprints
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from Black Cat Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #34 (April 1952)
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Out of the Black Night
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Inks
- Lou Cameron (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A vampire scare hangs over a little town. When a new boy at school confesses that his daddy is a vampire, the elderly school teacher Miss Albright investigates. Meeting the boy's father she discovers that he really is a vampire. But not the one she has been looking for...
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #20 (September 1953)
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Monster Lore!
comic story / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Black Cat Comics (Harvey, 1946 series) #34 (April 1952)
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Grab-Bag
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A group of girls is being haunted by the ghost of a mysterious evil woman, whose stylish accessories came into the girls’ possession.
- Reprints
- from Ghost Comics (Fiction House, 1951 series) #11 (1954)
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Trick or Treat
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Eugene E. Hughes [as EH] (signed)
- Inks
- Eugene E. Hughes [as EH] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- For an upcoming Halloween party, a man and a woman buy Halloween costumes (a werewolf and a vampire respectively) from a strange old shop owner who warns them the costumes can take over their personalities. At the party, the two literally turn into a werewolf and vampire and proceed to fight each other to the death.
- Reprints
- from Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #10 (May 1954)
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A Hand of Fate Mystery #32
A Hand of Fate Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "In the files of the Paris police there can be found a case history of a crime that occurred over thirty years ago..."
A man dressed as a devil at a Hallowe'en party kills his ex-girlfriend, then dies after his costume fuses to him. - Reprints
- from The Hand of Fate (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #23 (June 1954)
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The Vampire Cat!
comic story / 7 pages
- Characters
- Flo Blain; Vilma; Steve
- Synopsis
- Flo Blain angrily wishes that a gypsy woman named Vilma, who is trying to seduce her fiancee Steve at a Halloween party, would turn into a cat. The wish comes true, and Vilma turns into a vampire/cat creature that must consume blood every 24 hours, or she will be turned into an actual cat forever.
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #15 (March 1953)
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The Mask of Graffenwehr
comic story / 2 pages
- Job Number
- B-1767
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Tamis Kahn
- Synopsis
- Tamis Kahn gazes into the face of a woman he killed earlier in the day.
- Reprints
- from Out of the Shadows (Pines, 1952 series) #11 (January 1954)
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The Dead Dance on Halloween
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Lona Thornton wants a man promised to another woman. She seeks professional help from a witch and gets a love potion. Drinking it the man transforms into a beast and runs off into the woods with Lona. The witch demands payment. When Lona refuses, the witch kills her on halloween night and dooms her to a dance with the dead.
- Reprints
- from Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #14 (October 1952)
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How to Be a Gracious Ghost!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- humor; horror-suspense
- Characters
- Emily Ghost; werewolf
- Synopsis
- An unnamed ghost and Charlie, wearing a Death-like robe, seek advice about haunting an old mansion from Emily Ghost, a Morticia-like character. A werewolf shows up during the lessons. Two newlyweds arrive, escaping from a storm. The monsters scare them only because the eloping newlyweds think that their parents have found them.
- Reprints
- from Strange (Farrell, 1957 series) #2 (June 1957)
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- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Done in a humorous, early Mad style.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Halloween Nightmare
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2.
Out of the Black Night
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3.
Monster Lore!
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4.
Grab-Bag
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5.
Trick or Treat
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6.
A Hand of Fate Mystery #32
A Hand of Fate Mystery -
7.
The Vampire Cat!
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8.
The Mask of Graffenwehr
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9.
The Dead Dance on Halloween
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10.
How to Be a Gracious Ghost!
This issue was modified by
- Ken Austin
- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
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