Creepy #79

In the bleak aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, a lonely undead girl with an uncanny gentleness finds a living man hiding in a mountain cave. As her pregnancy begins to show, her family—ravenous and relentless—senses the presence of the man and sets out to capture him. When she races back to protect him, wielding a cross as a weapon, her defiance leads to a brutal reckoning. The story unfolds with quiet dread, exploring the fragile line between love and survival in a world where even the dead are not what they seem.

In "The Shadow of the Axe!", a young boy's world unravels when he discovers the terrifying truth about his father’s secret—his father is a serial axe murderer. As the boy grapples with the chilling realization, the weight of his family’s dark legacy begins to shape his own path.

In "Visitation at Pliny Marsh," a long-dead man named Joseph Prentiss is brought back to life by an otherworldly visitor, his reawakened body driven by a single purpose: vengeance against those who killed him. But as he moves through the quiet woods of Pliny Marsh, the alien presence that restored him stands between him and the fury he seeks.