EC Portfolio #1

In the heart of the Louisiana bayou, a man’s twisted hospitality leads him to lure travelers to his isolated mansion—only to feed his brother’s insatiable hunger for dismemberment. After a doctor becomes the latest victim, the swamp itself seems to stir, and three grotesque corpses made of mismatched body parts rise from the quicksand to reclaim their shattered forms.

In "My World," a lone narrator recounts the power to conjure entire realities at will—shaping scenes of human triumph and alien tragedy, beauty and decay, life and death, all within the boundless canvas of imagination. The story unfolds as a surreal meditation on creation, with each page revealing a new world drawn in stark, expressive lines by Wally Wood.

In "Touch and Go!", William Acton’s desperate attempt to erase every trace of his crime spirals into obsession as he compulsively cleans Arthur Huxley’s mansion, convinced that even the smallest sign of his presence will betray him. As dawn breaks, the police discover him still scrubbing, his mind unraveling under the weight of his own guilt.

In "Food for Thought," a long-lost Earth expedition returns to a planet they once seeded millennia ago, hoping to find a world ready for human colonization. What they discover instead is a twisted path of evolution that has made the planet unsuitable for their kind—so they prepare to erase it and begin again, unaware that a sentient tree has grown from the planet’s ancient roots, watching in silence.