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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: IDW
Title: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics!
Page Count: 168
Genre: Horror-suspense, Humor, Science Fiction
Era: Modern
Cover Price: 24.99 USD
Cover Date: September 2015
UPC: 978163140425252499
ISBN: 978-1631404252
Country: United States
Salem, in the year 1600. Peter Braack is a vain person. When a witch abducts women and Braack confronts her, he does not save the women but makes a pact wishing for eternal youth and immortality. Braack gets framed by the witch later on and hanged. Immortal as he is, he stumbles around as a living zombie begging for his redemption through death, which can only be granted by the witch.; A sweet old man runs a horror carousel with twisted creatures for rides. Two adult brothers smell foul play. The creatures look like deceased people they used to know. When one brother is killed by a monstrous fiend, the other starts investigating. Retracing the steps of vanished corpses he discovers the hideous truth: The old man is a vampire transforming his victims into rides on his horror-go-round.; A painter is abducted by aliens and taken to their planet. The aliens have been abducting specimens from all Worlds and force them to fight one another in gladiator fights to the death. The Earthling wins, thus convincing the aliens that humans are too dangerous and will one day pose a threat to their civilization. As a result, they destroy the human race.; A young TV camera man gets to operate a magic camera that wakes up the dead.; Jim Wolfe learns that in Haiti, soldiers will obey even after they are dead.; After killing the witch Francesca, Alberto Gasperi is cursed by a coven and chained atop Mount Everest.; Tiny dead ghostlike Martian creatures are raining down on earth and cause chaos and destruction. Only scientist and "authority on the occult" Don Blant may help by contacting the ghost of his dead brother Allen. The latter tells him that the Martians shy away from human blood.; In a Welsh coal mine a horde of undead druids is set free in an underground explosion. Greedy mine owner Wesleyn promises them a deal of sacrifices, but gets trapped in a cave-in and has to pose as the ritual sacrifice himself.; The town's executioner falls for a lovely woman. When rejected, he strangles her and is haunted by her ghostly apparition. All the "headsman"'s victims come together and take justice into their own hands.; A young woman marries an absent-minded professor only to find out he has an artificial hand, an artificial foot, an artificial ear...; A wife convinces her clumsy scientist husband to freeze her body thus putting her in suspended animation for 7 years. After she's declared legally dead, he will thaw her out and they can cash in on her insurance. Unfortunatly his clumsiness causes her frozen body to shatter to pieces when he knocks into her. When he thaws her out, he has to piece her body back together making her into a horrid jigsaw-like monstrosity.; A farmer makes a pact with the devil. When time comes to pay the devil his "due", said farmer gives the devil some "dew" from the fields - because there was a typo in the contract.

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