Cuentos de Brujas #138
"El pequeño monstruo" delivers a chilling, tightly wound tale from artist Everett Raymond Kinstler, whose stark interior art brings a grim, suspenseful atmosphere to this standalone story. Set in a tense, isolated moment aboard a train, the narrative unfolds with quiet dread as a man’s desperate hiding place becomes his tomb—no dialogue, no heroes, just the slow, inevitable pull of water and silence. The cover by Russ Heath, with its dramatic, shadowed composition, perfectly captures the story’s oppressive mood.
When a mysterious coffin arrives on a ship under a cruel captain’s command, the crew’s growing unrest boils over—leading to a desperate act that seals a vampire’s fate in wood and iron. The weight of the coffin and the silence it carries soon feel heavier than the sea itself.
In "El hombre en el tanque," a desperate fugitive takes refuge in a water tank, clinging to a lid as a train arrives to refill it. As the water level drops and the tank empties, the man’s grip weakens, trapped between the rising pressure of his fear and the slow, inevitable pull of the draining water.
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