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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: IDW
Title: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!
Page Count: 160
Genre: Horror-suspense, Humor
Era: Modern
Cover Price: 24.99 USD
Cover Date: July 2016
UPC: 978163140671352499
ISBN: 978-1631406713
Country: United States
When landlord Semple Ridgedon finds a society of murderers lodging in one of his buildings, he tears the place down and rebuilds it in a modern way. But the evil ghosts appear anew and confront Ridgedon with his promise to join them in their cult of murder.; Young artist Tom Daly wants to paint the macabre, because it fascinates him. Encountering horror master painter Peter Gynt and spending a dreadful night at his lonely mansion will change his life forever.; Strange things happen in and around Professor Caglio's wax exhibition of murderers through history. Can Elsa and boyfriend Terry escape when trapped in the storage room?; Ghost hunter Bruce Gibson buys a haunted house and challenges a satanic "dark stranger" to work his worst magic. He conjures a "monster's ghost" out of the bodies of four dead men, a black bull and drops of Gibson's blood. With the help of this powerful demon the dark stranger matches his wits against the ghost hunter's.; A farmer seems unconcerned when his farmhands are murdered by vampiric monsters on lonely foggy nights. It's later revealed that the vampires are the farmer's mute wife and daughter.; Eric Barnes, an audio engineer, is captured by sinister count Pramevi (anagram for 'vampire'). He is to build a recording machine to preserve the count's voice for all eternity. But Barnes constructs a supersonic weapon that disturbs the vampire's flight. Pramevi crashes to the ground.; J.V. Fletcher wants his partner Hallahan murdered so he can take over the entire rubber plantation business they own together in Brazil. He hires Otongo, a native witch doctor, to do the deed and to send Fletcher proof of the murder by sending him Hallahan's head. After the deed is done and Fletcher returns to America, the severed head of Hallahan stalks him for revenge.; A down-and-out candle maker is desperate, and cannot buy animal fat to make more product. After his fiancee leaves him, he becomes desperate, and resorts to digging graves to steal the bodies for making his wares. This, of course, comes with consequences.; Carnival silhouette artist Linc Mars learns to cut magic silhouettes from a burial sackcloth. He uses his abilities to amass riches, but runs out of magic and has to die by his own scissors.; Edgar Clay is distraught that his faithful wife Miriam fell to her death from a cliff when he was away at work. Overcome by lonely grief, he visits the cemetery she is buried at to feel consoltation. As night falls, he sees the silent dead rising from their graves rewriting their epitaphs to reveal the truths about how they lived their lives. He's shocked to see Miriam write her epitaph revealing that she fell off the cliff waiting her lover!; A man mistakenly gets on board a train of the dead, much to his regret.; Witches (along with their master Satan himself), converge every night at midnight at the old Rainey farm terrorizing the family. One night when young Joel is attacked by the monsters, his pet rooster "Peter" arrives and scares off the creatures who think he's Chanticleer, the fabled rooster.; Coach Will Rawson is a mad man constantly driving his football players to play through injuries without any mercy to their wellbeing. After one of his players (Bud Fowler) dies on the field, Bud's brother Jack exacts revenge on the coach through murder, turning his head into a new football.; A woman convinces her lover to kill her rich husband. The lover does so by blowing the husband's head off with a gun. After the wife and her lover get married and cash in on the dead man's insurance, the headless corpse of the husband comes back from the dead looking for a new head.; The small town of Twin Oaks is besieged by panic and paranoia when word gets out that a vampire is living among the townsfolk.; A man is killed by the skeletal hand of his unborn/undeveloped twin that was grafted onto his ankle before birth.; A man suffering through intense heat out in the jungle curses the sun. The local witchdoctor curses him and he is sent to the sun to suffer at the hands of Soltan the Sun King.; Joseph needs a fresh corpse for his experiments, which is provided when Delores Martiz dies on her wedding day. He brings her back from the dead, and then once more, but cannot win her for himself.; A doctor learns the secret of entering the minds of people from a dying mystic. When he attempts to prove this to his colleagues, he enters the mind of a homicidal maniac and is almost killed by his evil thoughts. After the demonstration, the doctor realizes how dangerous entering the minds of men is and refuses to make the secret known to anyone.; Psychiatrist helps man overcome his delusion of turning into a bat.; When a man steals a hanged man's robe, the dead comes to visit him and retrieves his cloak.

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