EC Portfolio #3

In the quiet dread of a coming winter, Pierre vows to his wife Maria that he’ll never be left to rot in the ground like Emile. When Maria dies unexpectedly, Pierre turns to the ice house to preserve her, driven by grief and a desperate hope to afford a proper burial. But as he returns from a successful trapping season with the funds to buy a metal vault, he opens the ice house—and finds something far worse than decay waiting for him.

In "50 Girls 50," a group of fifty men and fifty women are cryogenically frozen for a century-long voyage to colonize a distant star system. When one man, Sid, takes advantage of the system to wake early and romance different women one at a time, he soon finds himself outmaneuvered when one of his companions turns the tables on him. The story unfolds with sharp tension and a twist of irony, all within the confines of a locked, frozen world.

In the heat of aerial combat during a brutal war, confident Lt. Chesterfield—already downing enemy planes with cold precision—sets his sights on a Rumpler, aiming to claim his fifth and sixth kills in a single day. With every victory, his reputation grows, but as he pushes deeper into enemy airspace, a dangerous trap begins to unfold, one that could end his streak—and his life—before he reaches ace status.

In "Spawn of Venus," a team of astronauts returns from a mission to Venus carrying a seemingly harmless flower, unaware that its delicate petals conceal a terrifying secret. As the bloom unfolds under Earth’s sunlight, a monstrous entity awakens—unleashing a primal threat no one could have foreseen.