Adventures into Terror #29
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn 1954’s Adventures into Terror #29, a chilling tale unfolds in old England where a hunchbacked grave robber named Grimm preys on the dead—selling corpses to unscrupulous doctors and dumping the remains in a river. But when the drowned dead rise to claim vengeance, Grimm meets a fate far worse than he ever imagined. With haunting art by Gene Colan and a striking cover by Joe Maneely and Carl Burgos, this issue delivers a gothic horror story where the grave itself becomes a weapon.
In "The Vampire-Man," a tormented hunchback driven by a twisted desire to become a vampire schemes to fulfill his dark ambition—only to be undone by his own revulsion at the sight of blood. As the clock ticks toward New Year’s Eve, his desperate plan unravels in a chilling twist of fate.
In old England, the hunchbacked grave robber Grimm earns his keep by stealing corpses for shady doctors—only to dump the remains in the river. When the drowned dead rise to claim vengeance, Grimm meets a fate as chilling as the grave he so carelessly disturbed. Now, when a new grave robber begins his work, his first dig uncovers Grimm’s own tomb—ironically, the very man he once mocked.
In "The Man Who Walked the Plank," a cursed pirate captain faces his doom when his own ship goes down, leaving him stranded on the very plank he once used to condemn others. Surrounded by sharks and haunted by the undead crew he once doomed, he must walk the plank once more—only this time, there’s no escape.
In "The Horrible House!" from *Adventures into Terror* #29 (1954), a wealthy man haunted by a dream of an atom bomb destroying his home flees to the countryside, convinced he’s found safety. There, he builds a new house on land the workers warn is too soft—ignoring their fears, he seals himself inside as the ground gives way beneath him.
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Reprinted in Dracula Lives #3 (1973), Zombie #2 (1973), Beware #5 (1973), Fear #25 (1974), Dracula #11 (1976), Terreur de Dracula #1 (1976), Dracula lever #1 (1993), Gwandanaland Comics #2857 (2020), Cuentos de Brujas #103, Die Gruft von Graf Dracula #24
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