The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!
#25 - Haunted Horror: Cry from the Coffin! And Much More! (Volume 7)
(January 2019)
IDW,
2010 Series
- Price
- 24.99 USD; 33.99 CAD
- Pages
- 160
- On-sale Date
- 2019
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- IDW Publishing
- Brand
-
Yoe Books!; IDW
- ISBN
-
978-1-68405-175-5
- Barcode
- 9781684051755 52499
- Editing
- Craig Yoe; Clizia Gussoni; Steve Banes
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Reprints
-
from Weird Tales of the Future (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #7 (May 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.67 page
- Characters
- "Madam" Clizia Gussoni
- Reprints
- from The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #5 - Haunted Horror (October 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
On endpapers.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.67 page
- Characters
- Craig "Forelock the Warlock" Yoe
- Reprints
- from The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #5 - Haunted Horror (October 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
On endpapers.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.66 page
- Characters
- Steve Banes
- Reprints
- from The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #5 - Haunted Horror (October 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
On endpapers.
[Haunted Horror]
credits, title page / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bill Molno (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Bill Molno (spot illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Illustrated by a detail from story "The Doom of the Lucky Devil", page 7.
[no title indexed]
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 2.33 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm a comics code authority kid ...
[no title indexed]
Diablo House / cover reprint (on interior page) / 0.67 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Diablo House (IDW, 2017 series) #1 (July 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Presented as part of the introduction.
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #19 (October 2015) which is reprinted
- from Weird Tales of the Future (Stanley Morse, 1952 series) #7 (May 1953)
-
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
- from Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 series) #34 (April 1952)
-
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)
-
Monster Lore!
comic story / 1 page
- Synopsis
- A one page summary of classic monsters and their weaknesses.
- Reprints
- from Black Cat (Harvey, 1946 series) #34 (April 1952)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
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)
-
- Keywords
- monsters
Indexer Notes
Done in a humorous, early Mad style. This reprint suggests Altman as the artist.
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #20 (December 2015) which is reprinted
- from Blue Bolt Weird Tales of Terror (Star Publications, 1951 series) #114 (August 1952)
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The Horror of Van Mort!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- A. C. Hollingsworth (signed)
- Inks
- A. C. Hollingsworth (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- John Harvin rents a haunted house, waiting for the ghost of Van Mort to appear. When three friends from the city come visit him and scare him with a practical joke, the ghost rises.
- Reprints
- from Mysterious Adventures (Story Comics, 1951 series) #4 (October 1951)
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Cry from the Coffin
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A nameless man hits his head on a fire hydrant in the street and falls into a locked-in-state of being. Fully conscious, but unable to move or speak he has to witness identification by his unfaithful wife, an autopsy in which his heart is removed and his own funeral.
- Reprints
- from Strange Fantasy (Farrell, 1952 series) #8 (October 1953)
-
Death Song!
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Violinist Marleau murders his rival Ricco to get his share of wealth and fame. Then he starts seeing things and is haunted by the dead man's spirit.
- Reprints
- from Weird Terror (Comic Media, 1952 series) #2 (November 1952)
-
The Doom of the Lucky Devil
Fate / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Gangster "Lucky" Daniels is requested by Fate to change his ways. He denies and is led into a trap of greed. Finding gold in a mining ghost town he also encounters the miners' ghosts. Daniels falls into a pit and has to perish there.
- Reprints
- from The Hand of Fate (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #15 (December 1952)
-
The Witch of Death
comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Newspaperman Dick Groom arrives in New England's Misty Moors community to cover "Witchery Week". The local Duncan family is decimated one by one - haunted by the curse of the once alive moor witch. The last family member, the lovely Dora, is spared - for a sinister reason.
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #14 (May 1954)
-
Touch of Death
comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Doctor Death (host); Mudga; Mr. Benton; Tommy Wentworth; Fido; Mr. Bruxton; Matt
- Synopsis
- The age-old witch Mudga is cursed with the ability that anything that comes in contact with her is killed instantly. She's trying to live a reclusive life, but townsfolk just won't leave her be.
- Reprints
- from This Magazine Is Haunted (Fawcett, 1951 series) #11 (June 1953)
-
- Keywords
- buried alive; funeral; graveyard
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #21 (February 2016) which is reprinted
- from Mysterious Adventures (Story Comics, 1951 series) #13 (April 1953)
-
- Keywords
- skulls
Heart of the Snow Maiden
comic story / 7 pages
- Characters
- Gil; Ella; The Snow Maiden; The Ice King
- Synopsis
- A beautiful woman made of ice known as the Snow Maiden, comes down from the mountains to interact with the simple villagers in a small village in the Alps. When she falls for one of the villagers, the Ice King (a huge monster of living ice and snow) causes an avalanche destroying her and the entire village. In the present day sculptor Gil finds her ice heart in the wreckage of the village and brings her back to life by sculpting her a new body out of ice. The Ice King senses her alive and comes to America to destroy her and Gil.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #40 (February 1953)
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The Haunted Hotel
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1829
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Colonel Packard
- Synopsis
- A colonel in the Civil War stays overnight at a hotel in Atlanta, seeing there the ghostly victims of the siege.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into Darkness (Pines, 1952 series) #13 (March 1954)
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The Eyes of March!
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Nicholas March; Laura Duncan; Johnny Franklin
- Synopsis
- When Laura Duncan leaves her creepy husband Nicholas March for the young Johnny Franklin, March gets revenge by using the hypnotic stare of his large uncanny eyes to force Laura to commit suicide. The angered Johnny kills March, but his eerie eyes haunt Johnny from the grave and forces him to commit suicide as well.
- Reprints
- from Tomb of Terror (Harvey, 1952 series) #8 (March 1953)
-
The Unbeliever
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- B-1812
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A witch dwells in a Northern England bog and puts a spell on a young couple. She wishes to take the young woman's place, but her evil plans are thwarted.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into Darkness (Pines, 1952 series) #13 (March 1954)
-
Terror in Chinatown
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- The collector August Lamont searches frantically for a Chinese “book of the dead” holding great secrets. Lamont murders two book dealers to get his hands on the tome. By opening the book Lamont suffers terrible visions of past crimes – the last one showing his own murder.
- Reprints
- from Web of Evil (Quality Comics, 1952 series) #17 (August 1954)
-
The Murder Pool
comic story / 5 pages
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Fat unlikable James Gorse builds a swimming pool and fills it with a special red acid that eats away flesh. He tricks people he hates into swimming in his pool and laughs maniacally when they are reduced to skeletons. When he tries to get his wife to swim, she shoots him and murders him causing his corpse to fall into the pool.
- Reprints
- from Strange Fantasy (Farrell, 1952 series) #13 (August-September 1954)
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Night Air
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A doctor treats a strange patient, the lovely Mara. She insists on staying indoors at night and keeping the windows strictly closed, because she feels stalked by vampires. One night the doctor ignores her pleas and is shocked to be confronted with evil.
- Reprints
- from Weird Terror (Comic Media, 1952 series) #4 (March 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Rudy Palais has been suggested for pencils.
First-person narrative.
Case of the Haunted Girl
comic story / 3 pages
- Characters
- Esther Carr; Bob Nelson; Jennie; Aunt Olive; Uncle Daniel
- Synopsis
- Esther Carr is haunted and tormented by the ghost of her boyfriend Bob Nelson, after he commits suicide when Esther wouldn't marry him.
- Reprints
- from Adventures into the Unknown (American Comics Group, 1948 series) #24 (October 1951)
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The Subway Terror!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Mike Esposito [as Demeo] (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Esposito [as Demeo] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Patrolman Dave Whitley is transferred to "Department G", a secret police squad fighting a race of hideous and man-eating underground monsters terrorizing the subway.
- Reprints
- from Mister Mystery (Stanley Morse, 1951 series) #2 (November 1951)
-
Step into my Grave!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- On a plantation in Louisiana, a man stumbles upon a voodoo queen and her horde of zombies. The man's undead brother warns him, but all perish in a final show down ritual.
- Reprints
- from Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #11 (November 1952)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.67 page
- Characters
- "Madam" Clizia Gussoni
- Reprints
- from The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #5 - Haunted Horror (October 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
On endpapers.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.67 page
- Characters
- Craig "Forelock the Warlock" Yoe
- Reprints
- from The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #5 - Haunted Horror (October 2013)
-
Indexer Notes
On endpapers.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 0.66 page
- Characters
- Steve Banes
- Reprints
- from The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #5 - Haunted Horror (October 2013)
-
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.
["I'm a comics code authority kid ..."]
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6.
[no title indexed]
Diablo House -
7.
[no title indexed]
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8.
Halloween Nightmare
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9.
Out of the Black Night
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10.
Monster Lore!
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11.
Grab-Bag
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12.
Trick or Treat
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13.
A Hand Of Fate Mystery #32
A Hand Of Fate Mystery -
14.
The Vampire Cat!
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15.
The Mask of Graffenwehr
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16.
The Dead Dance on Halloween
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17.
How to Be a Gracious Ghost!
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18.
[no title indexed]
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19.
The Horror of Van Mort!
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20.
Cry from the Coffin
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21.
Death Song!
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22.
The Doom of the Lucky Devil
Fate -
23.
The Witch of Death
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24.
Touch of Death
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25.
[no title indexed]
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26.
Heart of the Snow Maiden
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27.
The Haunted Hotel
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28.
The Eyes of March!
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29.
The Unbeliever
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30.
Terror in Chinatown
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31.
The Murder Pool
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32.
Night Air
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33.
Case of the Haunted Girl
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34.
The Subway Terror!
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35.
Step into my Grave!
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36.
[no title indexed]
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[no title indexed]
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[no title indexed]
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["Comics so scary and gruesome, the U.S. Senate had to get involved!"]
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