EC Portfolio #4

In the shadowed hills where moonlight barely reaches, a vampire and a werewolf find love in the silence between transformations. Bound by longing and the rhythm of the moon, they hunt together—until the villagers drive them to their final rest. But death does not hold them long: from the devil’s graveyard, they rise, married beneath a cursed sky, their tomb their first home. Years later, their union bears a child—Elicia, the Old Witch—born of blood and moonlight, a stranger to the world she will one day rule.

In "By George!!," two archaeologists unearth a mysterious, block-like artifact covered in ancient inscriptions—only to discover it's the diary of a reptilian alien boy who fled his homeworld 14 centuries ago, crash-landed on Earth during the Medieval era, and was ultimately slain by a knight whose legend would become Saint George and the Dragon.

In "Man and Superman," Niels, a scientist obsessed with manipulating atomic mass, watches in disbelief as his brother Charlemagne—more interested in strength than science—accidentally gains superhuman power from Niels’s machine. When Charlemagne’s newfound might begins to fade, the strain proves fatal, culminating in a violent release of energy that consumes him.

In the sci-fi tale "Bellyful," a crew member named Donalds suffers intense stomach pains during a mission after departing from X-15, prompting the ship’s doctor to promise tests upon landing on an alien world. When the planet’s massive native creature destroys their ship and swallows them whole, the truth emerges: Donalds is host to an alien tapeworm, and the entire crew has become part of the creature’s digestive system.

In "Chatterboxed!", a man prone to sudden cataleptic episodes takes extreme measures to ensure he won’t be buried alive—no embalming, a phone in his coffin, and a desperate hope for rescue. When an accident triggers a fit and he’s presumed dead, he awakens to a terrifying reality: the coffin is sealed, the air is fading, and every call he makes—first to his wife, then his brother, then his doctor—goes unanswered. With time running out, he reaches for the last hope: the operator—but on December 7, 1941, the line is jammed with a world already in crisis.