Il Guardiano della Cripta

Il Guardiano della Cripta is a macabre horror host who presides over tales of terror in this Italian anthology series. A ghoulish keeper of the crypt, he shares his shadowy domain with similarly eerie figures like La Vecchia Strega and Il Custode del Sepolcro.

Emerging from the shadowy pages of Edizioni B.S.D.'s I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore in 1991, Il Guardiano della Cripta is a creature of the Copper/Modern Age Italian comics scene, brought to life through the collaborative work of Ferruccio Alessandri and the legendary Jack Davis. This macabre host haunts the pages of a series steeped in terror, keeping eerie company with the likes of La Vecchia Strega and Il Custode del Sepolcro — a rogues' gallery of the ghoulish and the grotesque. With ten catalog appearances concentrated in that chilling anthology, Il Guardiano della Cripta is a fascinating artifact of horror comics culture as filtered through an Italian lens, well worth seeking out for any collector with a taste for the darkly atmospheric.