The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!
#20 - Haunted Love
(February 2017)
IDW,
2010 Series
- Price
- 24.99 USD
- Pages
- 152
- On-sale Date
- 2017
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IDW Publishing
- Brand
-
Yoe Books!; IDW
- ISBN
-
978-1-63140-826-7
- Barcode
- 9781631408267 52499
- Editing
- Steve Banes
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted - from Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #12 (September 1954)
-
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted
- from Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #12 (September 1954)
-
Crawling Evil
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Lorna is trained to hate men. She finds a witchcraft book. She begins a crusade of turning men into worms and squishing them. She accidentally squishes the man she loves. She takes poison, as worms come out of the walls to revenge themselves.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted
-
from Journey into Fear (Superior, 1951 series) #10 (November 1952)
-
The Ice Man Cometh
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted
- from Mysterious Adventures (Story Comics, 1951 series) #16 (October 1953)
-
Lady or the Tigress?
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Donald Matson, owner of a private zoo, is presented with a beautiful tigress. The animal however can transform into a mysterious white lady and makes Matson fall in love with her - with fatal consequences.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted
- from This Magazine Is Haunted (Fawcett, 1951 series) #9 (February 1953)
-
The Dead Are Never Lonely
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Actress Nolita is killed in an argument with her husband. She flees the crypt, hoping to escape death. As her body withers away in the world of the living, she returns to death and finds peace with her late husband.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted
- from Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #14 (March 1953)
-
Nothing Can Save Her
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-1550
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- On a nightly country road, Dr. Saunders hits a beautiful woman with his car. He can save her life by giving her transfusions of his blood. She recovers and thanks him by draining the rest of it - because she is a vampire.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted
- from Adventures into Darkness (Pines, 1952 series) #9 (April 1953)
-
The Weirdest Suicide Pact of All Times!
comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted
- from Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #6 (August 1953)
-
Marriage of Death
comic story / 8 pages
- Characters
- Dr. Ryan; Dan; Marian [Gram]; Annette Whitney; Pierre Le Mort; Jacques
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #1 (February 2016) which is reprinted
- from Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #11 (June-July 1950)
-
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense; romance
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #2 (March 2016) which is reprinted
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #24 (December 1953)
-
Love Me Forever!
comic story / 6 pages
- Characters
- Pierre Fabron; Mark Hobart; Roxanne; Mamma Voudon; Adele Simone
- Synopsis
- Pierre Fabron asks a gypsy witch named Mamma Voudon to concoct a love serum so he can use it on the popular and beautiful Roxanne. Roxanne is the most coveted woman in the Bayou but she wants nothing to do with Pierre. After he slips her the potion, she falls head over heels in love with him. After awhile Pierre gets sick of her smothering, and kills her. But her rotted corpse keeps coming for Pierre because of her undying love. Pierre is driven to near madness but now remembers the witch's warning about how the potion makes one love forever!
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #2 (March 2016) which is reprinted
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #24 (December 1953)
-
Marriage of the Monsters!
comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Prince Rah is in love with Tleena, daughter of the Pharaoh. When he is about to be buried alive for his forbidden love for Tleena, Tleena kills herself. The evil Tut-Kah then buries him alive with the corpse of his love. Centuries later, Tut-Kah's descendant steals the two mummies from a museum and tries to bring them back to life with electrical currents. The two reanimated lovers get revenge on Tut-Kah's descendant for what his ancestor did to them.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #2 (March 2016) which is reprinted
- from Tomb of Terror (Harvey, 1952 series) #5 (October 1952)
-
The Door
comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- American writer Richard Mord visits the castle of Valord, home of the vampire lady Siroon. There he discovers the entrance to the beyond, hidden behind a strange door. When he returns for a second visit, the demons greet him all too familiar...
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #2 (March 2016) which is reprinted
- from This Magazine Is Haunted (Fawcett, 1951 series) #12 (August 1953)
-
The Bride of the Crab
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Gold digger Mona wants to marry rich Donald Donder. Donald lives in a huge seaside mansion that is above underwater caverns that are said to be full of riches. Mona doesn't care about Donald, and when he's severely injured after getting her some jewels in the caverns, she leaves him to die. Donald is saved by a race of humanoid crab monsters. They are his family descendants who have found a way to cheat death by taking a serum that turns them into crab creatures so they can live underwater. After taking the serum the now crab-like Donald goes looking for his bride Mona!
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #2 (March 2016) which is reprinted
- from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #12 (September 1952)
-
Death Do Us Part
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A possessive female baboon saves a diamond prospector after he falls off a cliff. She protects him and feeds him and tends to his wounds. When he tries to leave, the baboon bars his path. After managing to knock the baboon out with a rock, he returns home to his wife. But the baboon comes looking for him and tries to kill her competition. His wife!
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #2 (March 2016) which is reprinted
- from Haunted Thrills (Farrell, 1952 series) #13 (January 1954)
-
Two for the Money
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A gigolo named Harvey Craig marries two exotic rich woman from Europe. He marries them on opposite sides of town so they won't know that the other exists. Harvey is living the good life juggling two rich wives. The women are constantly trying to fatten him up by overfeeding him. Harvey is curious as to why this is happening. He then finds out his wives are a vampire and a zombie respectively, who want him as food!
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #2 (March 2016) which is reprinted
- from Mysterious Adventures (Story Comics, 1951 series) #22 (October 1954)
-
The Widow's Lover
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A former executioner beheads his old boss and is allowed to be his own executioner.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #2 (March 2016) which is reprinted
- from Amazing Ghost Stories (St. John, 1954 series) #16 (February 1955) which is reprinted
- from Weird Thrillers (Ziff-Davis, 1951 series) #4 (Summer 1952)
-
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #3 (April 2016) which is reprinted
- from The Unseen (Pines, 1952 series) #13 (February 1954)
-
- Keywords
- brides; candles; skeletons
Tomb for Two
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- John Morgan; Elsa Morgan; Bert
- Synopsis
- John loves his new bride Elsa more than life itself. When she dies of a mysterious illness, his mind snaps. He steals her body from the grave and forces a taxidermist to preserve her corpse. He then tries to live his life with her body as if she was still alive.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #3 (April 2016) which is reprinted
- from Journey into Fear (Superior, 1951 series) #6 (March 1952)
-
- Keywords
- grave robbing; taxidermy
Curse of the Fire-Bird
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Lydia; Professor Burnett Firey; Juan Dufue
- Synopsis
- When "ambitious" Lydia kills her husband with the stroke of a mace to inherit his fortunes, he changes into a phoenix and hunts her down to a fiery end.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #3 (April 2016) which is reprinted
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #18 (January 1953)
-
- Keywords
- mace; murder
The Black Candle of Life
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Jeff Capper; Marjorie Capper; Sima
- Synopsis
- Jeff and Marjorie Capper are traveling through Tibet when they have to seek shelter in a cave from a rainstorm. By lighting a black candle the tourists revive the zombie-like "evil ones".
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #3 (April 2016) which is reprinted
- from Beware! Terror Tales (Fawcett, 1952 series) #4 (November 1952)
-
- Keywords
- Tibet
Monsters of the Deep
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-1841
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Bill Hudson; Lissa
- Synopsis
- A tribe of cruel mermaids captures a human diver and plans on sacrificing him. Mermaid Lissy falls in love with the man. After a dramatic escape things take a turn for the worse.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #3 (April 2016) which is reprinted
- from The Unseen (Pines, 1952 series) #14 (April 1954)
-
- Keywords
- mermaid; octopus; scuba diving; shark; skeleton
Tour of Horror
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Mildred Joyce; Leland Gaylord; Horace Trent
- Synopsis
- Mildred Joyce meets the dashing Leland Gaylord in New York City and they decide to take a bus tour of Manhattan. During the tour, the bus shows women being murdered and their corpses entering the bus. It turns out these women were murdered by Leland (who marries young women and then murders them for their money) and are not only trying to warn Mildred of her fate but to get revenge on their killer.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #3 (April 2016) which is reprinted
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #29 (May 1954)
-
- Keywords
- drowning; poisoning
The Devil's Clock
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Don Simmons; Betty Stevens; Jorak
- Synopsis
- A newlywed couple purchases a strange antique clock. When the husband winds the clock backwards, he's sent thousands of years into the past and encounters a Satan worshiping cult of demonic pagans who try to force him to sacrifice his wife in the present day, so time can loop with his sacrifice into the past thus allowing them to enter the modern world.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Love (IDW, 2016 series) #3 (April 2016) which is reprinted
- from Tales of Horror (Toby, 1952 series) #3 (November 1952)
-
- Keywords
- human sacrifice; time travel
United Forever!
comic story / 1 page
- Characters
- Hester Pratt; Roger Burgess
- Reprints
- from Forbidden Worlds (American Comics Group, 1951 series) #25 (January 1954)
-
No Rest for the Dead
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- B-1842
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Undertaker Lethan Krewal (sic!) kidnaps his dream girl, kills her and keeps her as his love zombie. Unfortunately he locks himself in with her in a casket.
- Reprints
- from The Unseen (Pines, 1952 series) #14 (April 1954)
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Indexer Notes
Told by Death himself.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[Haunted Love]
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2.
[no title indexed]
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3.
Crawling Evil
-
4.
The Ice Man Cometh
-
5.
Lady or the Tigress?
-
6.
The Dead Are Never Lonely
-
7.
Nothing Can Save Her
-
8.
The Weirdest Suicide Pact of All Times!
-
9.
Marriage of Death
-
10.
[no title indexed]
-
11.
Love Me Forever!
-
12.
Marriage of the Monsters!
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13.
The Door
-
14.
The Bride of the Crab
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15.
Death Do Us Part
-
16.
Two for the Money
-
17.
The Widow's Lover
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18.
[no title indexed]
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19.
Tomb for Two
-
20.
Curse of the Fire-Bird
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21.
The Black Candle of Life
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22.
Monsters of the Deep
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23.
Tour of Horror
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24.
The Devil's Clock
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25.
United Forever!
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26.
No Rest for the Dead
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27.
["Haunted Love is the unlikely spawn ..."]
This issue was modified by
- Alan Hutchinson
- Claus Simonsen
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