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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: IDW
Title: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!
Page Count: 168
Genre: Horror-suspense, Science Fiction
Era: Modern
Cover Price: 24.99 USD
Cover Date: September 2013
UPC: 978161377788652499
ISBN: 978-1-61377-788-6
Country: United States
Dr. Ansel Jarrat, a naturalist, works at the Natural History Museum. Dr. Jarrat never cared that he put many insects through incredible pain by pulling them apart and dissecting them without chloroform for the museum's exhibits. After all they were only insects. But now the insects will have their revenge. Every night Dr. Jarrat finds himself turning into an insect. A caterpillar one night, a cockroach the next. Will Dr. Jarrat find a way out of this curse or will he die the death of an insect, like so many he has killed?; An architect loses his secretary (who he's secretly in love with) to a young good looking man. Wanting revenge on the couple he offers them a huge mansion complete with a beautiful swimming pool as a gift. It turn out that inside the pool is a prehistoric furry tentacled monster. The architect encountered this monster years ago in a small watering hole and built the swimming pool over the hole to destroy the couple. Unfortunately for him the monster also makes him a victim.; The boy Corker enters a marble tournament to help out his poor widowed mother. His marbles are the magic glass eyes of their sadistic landlord Mr. Ebber.; Bill and his wife Betty move into her family estate in the New England countryside. Residing in the house is Clara the housekeeper, an old and mysterious lady. Betty later finds out about the curse of a werewolf that has plagued the area for decades and discovers the connection with her own family bloodline after finding out her dead grandfather had been a werewolf. Meanwhile a werewolf begins stalking the area claiming victim after victim, sending the locals into a panic. Is this creature the mysterious Clara or is there something else going on in regards to the family curse?; Jeb Daws is looking to run for mayor in a small town to restore democratic processes. The current corrupt mayor and his cronies want to get rid of him and frame him for murder. They then testify against him in court resulting in a guilty sentence. Jeb is condemned to die by hanging the next day. Before he dies he swears he will get revenge. Later that evening, Jebs' hanging corpse is gone and people swear that they see his ghost roaming the streets at night...; A castaway is saved by a sea creature who gives her a necklace. She escapes and sets sail on a raft but chokes to death because the seaweed used in the necklace shrinks in the sun. Her body is found, dumped in the sea, and taken by the sea creature.; Leonore Black is a beautiful woman, but also able to transform herself into a giant black widow spider. In this form she kills men who do harm to spiders: collectors and zoologists. The human black widow meets her fate when stung to death by a swarm of wasps.; Pipe collector Ira Krim is fascinated by a skull-shaped pipe in a curio shop. Despite all warnings, he is compelled to own the pipe, even if it means his doom.; On Friday 13th, a young couple checks into a strange hotel and is ushered into room 1313 on the 13th floor. They make the acquaintance of an annual convention of people who committed suicide in this room some years ago.; Thanks to "years of experiments plus a knowledge of black magic", Ivan Buloff controls an army of flying severed hands that kill on his command. He even blackmails the helpless German government. But the worried sister of one of his victims proves to be his downfall.; Johnathan Barkley frightens his friend, Dr. Channy, with his recollection of what happened in Tibet.; People keep disappearing near the old Norris' cabin. "Ma" and "Pa" Norris are a kindly old couple who are well liked in town. But the sheriff suspects that there is something up and that the Norris' are not what they seem to be...; Lawrence Romaine, a brilliant surgeon who has found a way to save patients by replacing diseased organs with healthy fresh ones, falls in love with the beautiful Susanne. After Susanne dies of a heart attack, Lawrence attempts to bring her back to life with the heart of a cadaver. The revived Susanne now falls in love with the reanimated cadaver who's heart she now has as opposed to the grief stricken Lawrence proving that "The heart still loves its body".; A man walking across a cemetery is struck by lightning and loses his memory. He enters a strange house, meets ghosts and suddenly remembers - he is the devil.

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