City of the Living Dead #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Witches Come at Midnight!", Professor Bob Martin and his wife Anne venture into the forbidden ruins of Quetana in the Yucatan, heedless of warnings from their guide Ramon. As they explore the ancient city, they soon find themselves caught in a nightmare of eerie phenomena tied to a cursed legend: a band of Aztec-era prisoners, condemned by the god Quetzal to eternal life in the city they once fled. With art by Everett Raymond Kinstler and a haunting cover by A. C. Hollingsworth, this 1952 Avon tale blends folklore and dread in a chilling descent into the unknown.
In the heart of the Yucatan, Professor Bob Martin and his wife Anne ignore warnings from guide Ramon and venture into the forbidden ruins of Quetana. As night falls, the ancient city stirs with a dread beyond legend—where the dead are said to walk, and a cursed past refuses to stay buried.
In the heart of Yucatán, a group of explorers stumbles upon the long-lost Quetana—legendary City of the Living Dead—where cursed pirates endure eternal torment. As the ruins come alive with restless spirits, only those with pure intentions may survive the night’s horrors, when the Aztec god Quetzal himself intervenes to judge their worth.
In the damp silence of a swampland mansion, Jo finds himself trapped in a nightmare he can't escape—haunted not by ghosts, but by a glistening, ever-present presence that wears the face of a woman. As the truth of his captivity unravels, he must confront the chilling reality that his body and mind are no longer his own. The story, written with creeping dread and illustrated in stark, unsettling detail, unfolds in a haunting six-page tale from *City of the Living Dead*—a chilling blend of science fiction and body horror, lettered with sharp, typeset precision.
In "The Witches Come at Midnight!" from City of the Living Dead #[nn], every midnight the old Rainey farm becomes a gathering place for witches and their master, Satan, terrorizing the family. When young Jo is attacked, his pet rooster Peter arrives just in time—frightening the creatures, who believe him to be the legendary Chanticleer.
In "Death Has Many Tongues," Captain Death—once a merciless slave trader—faces the terrifying consequences of his crimes when the very people he enslaved curse him with the heads of his victims growing from his body. As the grotesque burden consumes him, his torment spirals into madness, driving him to seek escape in the ocean’s depths.
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Reprinted in Fantastic Tales #1 (1958), Psycho #1 (1971), Web of Scares Special Collector's Edition #4 (2010), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #[3] (2012), Haunted Horror #11 (2014), Haunted Horror #17 (2015), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #16 (2016), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #24 (2018), Hort der Angst #5
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