The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!
#21 - Haunted Horror: The Screaming Skulls! and Much More! (Volume 5)
(March 2017)
IDW,
2010 Series
- Price
- 24.99 USD
- Pages
- 160
- On-sale Date
- 2017
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IDW Publishing
- Brand
-
Yoe Books!; IDW
- ISBN
-
978-1-63140-835-9
- Barcode
- 9781631408359 52499
- Editing
- Craig Yoe (editor); Clizia Gussoni (editor); Stephen Banes (editor)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bernard Baily (signed); Art Fuentes (insert); Angelo Torres (insert); Drazen Kozjan (insert)
- Inks
- Bernard Baily (signed); Art Fuentes (insert); Angelo Torres (insert); Drazen Kozjan (insert)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
-
from Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #2 (December 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Front cover.
[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.
[Haunted Horror]
credits, title page / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Iger Shop (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Iger Shop (spot illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset; ?
Indexer Notes
Title page and indicia. Spot illustration: Enlarged detail from story "Nightmare Come True", pg. 4.
[My real introduction to comics ...]
text article / 4 pages
- Script
- Derek Royal
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Introduction.
[Way of the Werewolf]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bernie Wrightson (signed)
- Inks
- Bernie Wrightson (signed)
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-3935
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- werewolf
- Reprints
- from House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #231 (May 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Reproduction of original art.
Curse of the Mist-Things
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Ghost Comics (Fiction House, 1951 series) #8 (1953)
-
- Keywords
- voodoo dolls
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Mister Mystery (Stanley Morse, 1951 series) #1 (September 1951)
-
- Keywords
- cemeteries; graveyards; living dead; tombstones
Chilling Tales of Horror!
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Mysterious Adventures (Story Comics, 1951 series) #16 (October 1953)
-
The Thing from Beyond
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Beware (Trojan Magazines, 1953 series) #6 (November 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #13 (October 2014) which is reprinted
- from Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #10 (December-January 1952-53)
-
Indexer Notes
Signature cropped off.
City of Fearful Night
comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Frank Thompson misses his plane and travels by train instead. But since the plane crashes and he should have been among the victims, he is taken to a strange city of lost souls - where he has to run for his life.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #13 (October 2014) which is reprinted
- from Worlds of Fear (Fawcett, 1952 series) #2 (January 1952)
-
The Face in the Shroud
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a seance goes wrong and Helen's husband Jim is killed by a ghostly apparition, she is held for murder. But with the assistance of Jim's ghost Helen can thwart a sinister plot behind it all.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #13 (October 2014) which is reprinted
- from Ghost Comics (Fiction House, 1951 series) #8 (1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Right credits and provenience this time.
The Screaming Skulls
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1734
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Evildoer is haunted by the floating heads of his victims.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #13 (October 2014) which is reprinted
- from The Unseen (Pines, 1952 series) #12 (November 1953)
-
Death a la Carte
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #13 (October 2014) which is reprinted
- from Mister Mystery (Stanley Morse, 1951 series) #1 (September 1951)
-
Indexer Notes
Kurtzman imitation.
This reprint attributes the artwork solely to Esposito.
The Paper Ghost
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #13 (October 2014) which is reprinted
- from Beware (Trojan Magazines, 1953 series) #6 (November 1953)
-
The Fifth Corpse
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-1830
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The killer Nick Mangoti suffers from amnesia. After his last hit, he does not remember a thing - until he finds out the hard way.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #13 (October 2014) which is reprinted
- from The Unseen (Pines, 1952 series) #14 (April 1954)
-
The Collector
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Hunter Thaddeus Stevens collects specimens from all over the world. One day a clone of himself emerges from a strange life-giving pool and hunts him down.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #13 (October 2014) which is reprinted
- from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #17 (May 1953)
-
A Rose Is a Rose
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Super intelligent orphan boy Tommy can feel the pain of flowers. His new foster parents deceive him by assuring him flowers want to be cut and put into vases. When Tommy finds out that he's being lied to, he cuts down his foster parents.
- Reprints
- from Tomb of Terror (Harvey, 1952 series) #10 (July 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Reproduced from original art.
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #14 (November 2014) which is reprinted
- from This Magazine Is Haunted (Fawcett, 1951 series) #13 (October 1953)
-
Death's Revenge!
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a player in an illegal card game gives evidence to the DA, the Mob organizers of the game see to his painful death. He returns on the anniversary of his killing for one more hand and some revenge.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #14 (November 2014) which is reprinted
- from Mysterious Adventures (Story Comics, 1951 series) #16 (October 1953)
-
- Keywords
- poker
Horror of the Cannibals' Dinner
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A cruel plantation owner flogs a girl to death and cuts off the hand of the old witch doctor woman. The old woman commands her tribe to burn her at the stake so she can take revenge. She returns from the dead as a beautiful savage and lures the evil master into the jungle. He is decapitated by her tribe and served as cannibals' dinner.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #14 (November 2014) which is reprinted
- from Dark Mysteries (Master Comics, 1951 series) #15 (December 1953)
-
- Keywords
- cannibal; cannibalism; Kenya Africa; slavery; witch doctor
The Murderous Mimics!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Paul Cooper (signed)
- Inks
- Paul Cooper (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A couple makes a home in Alaska but soon finds a race of shape shifters trying to take over the world.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #14 (November 2014) which is reprinted
- from Beware (Youthful, 1952 series) #11 (August 1952)
-
- Keywords
- Alaska
Headless Horror!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A TV actor goes to England to do a TV show in a haunted castle.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #14 (November 2014) which is reprinted
- from Chamber of Chills Magazine (Harvey, 1951 series) #8 (May 1952)
-
- Keywords
- ghost
I Walked at Midnight
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two vampires live in a cemetery. One day this hunting ground cannot provide nourishment for both of them. They fight each other to the death. Peace is restored in the cemetery.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #14 (November 2014) which is reprinted
- from The Beyond (Ace Magazines, 1950 series) #17 (November 1952)
-
- Keywords
- cemetery; vampire
While the Iron Was Hot!
comic story / 4 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Tony Mortellaro (signed)
- Inks
- Tony Mortellaro (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- The Ghoul Teacher
- Synopsis
- A tailor snaps and kills his wife.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #14 (November 2014) which is reprinted
- from Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #12 (September 1954) which is reprinted
- from Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #3 (February 1953)
-
- Keywords
- decapitation
The Devil from the Deep
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Men bring a mermaid in from the ocean, but find out she has a taste for human flesh.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #14 (November 2014) which is reprinted
- from Nightmare (Ziff-Davis, 1952 series) #2 (Fall 1952)
-
- Keywords
- mermaid
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bernard Baily (signed)
- Inks
- Bernard Baily (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #15 (February 2015) which is reprinted
- from Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #2 (December 1952)
-
Nightmare Come True
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a grocery clerk dreams about monsters, they enter reality. He survives an attack by one but goes to a hospital where doctors sedate him. While sedated he dreams of monsters which destroy the city. A doctor kills him, thus killing the monsters.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #15 (February 2015) which is reprinted
-
from Journey into Fear (Superior, 1951 series) #9 (September 1952)
-
Mark of the Brute
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #15 (February 2015) which is reprinted
- from Weird Terror (Comic Media, 1952 series) #11 (May 1954)
-
Terror of the Nightmares!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jon D'Agostino (signed)
- Inks
- Jon D'Agostino (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #15 (February 2015) which is reprinted
- from Dark Mysteries (Master Comics, 1951 series) #16 (February 1954)
-
You Can't Cheat a Ghost
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Three criminals search for pirate gold. One fools the others into thinking he's the ghost of the pirate. The real ghost shows up and kills all three and they sail his pirate ship for eternity.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #15 (February 2015) which is reprinted
- from Strange Mysteries (Superior, 1951 series) #9 (January 1953)
-
Monster of Sarno Gulch!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Norman Nodel (signed)
- Inks
- Vince Alascia (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #15 (February 2015) which is reprinted
- from Witchcraft (Avon, 1952 series) #6 (March 1953)
-
The Fiend Who Lived Forever
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #15 (February 2015) which is reprinted
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #17 (August 1954)
-
The Get-Away
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1777
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A dark stranger leads a murderer on the run into a shelter, down endless flights of stairs - straight into Hell.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #15 (February 2015) which is reprinted
- from The Unseen (Pines, 1952 series) #13 (February 1954)
-
Ordeal by Wax!
comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Charles Stern (signed)
- Inks
- Charles Stern (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A murderer finds employment in a wax museum and has to lure victims inside. In the end he is going to end up as a wax exhibit, too.
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #15 (February 2015) which is reprinted
- from Mister Mystery (Stanley Morse, 1951 series) #18 (August 1954) which is reprinted
- from Weird Mysteries (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #2 (December 1952)
-
[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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0.
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1.
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2.
[no title indexed]
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3.
[no title indexed]
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4.
[Haunted Horror]
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5.
[My real introduction to comics ...]
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6.
[Way of the Werewolf]
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7.
Curse of the Mist-Things
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8.
[no title indexed]
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9.
Chilling Tales of Horror!
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10.
The Thing from Beyond
-
11.
[no title indexed]
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12.
City of Fearful Night
-
13.
The Face in the Shroud
-
14.
The Screaming Skulls
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15.
Death a la Carte
-
16.
The Paper Ghost
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17.
The Fifth Corpse
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18.
The Collector
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19.
A Rose Is a Rose
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20.
[no title indexed]
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21.
Death's Revenge!
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22.
Horror of the Cannibals' Dinner
-
23.
The Murderous Mimics!
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24.
Headless Horror!
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25.
I Walked at Midnight
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26.
While the Iron Was Hot!
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27.
The Devil from the Deep
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28.
[no title indexed]
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29.
Nightmare Come True
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30.
Mark of the Brute
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31.
Terror of the Nightmares!
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32.
You Can't Cheat a Ghost
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33.
Monster of Sarno Gulch!
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34.
The Fiend Who Lived Forever
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35.
The Get-Away
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36.
Ordeal by Wax!
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37.
The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics
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[no title indexed]
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[no title indexed]
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[no title indexed]
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[You'll scream with terror ...]
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