EC Portfolio #6

In the aftermath of World War II, a fugitive former commander of Belsen Concentration Camp flees across Europe and into America, haunted by the memory of a single inmate who vowed revenge. Years later, his terror comes to life when he encounters that man face to face on a train, the weight of his past finally catching up with him.

"Shoe-Button Eyes!" is a haunting, emotionally charged tale of a blind boy whose world changes on Christmas when he finally sees—only to confront the cruel truth behind his mother’s death and the man who took her life. Told with quiet dread, the story follows a boy whose love for his mother and his cherished teddy bear becomes a fragile anchor in a household ruled by a stepfather who mocks him with cruel words and crueler acts. When his mother lies dying, the boy pleads for help, only to watch his beloved bear’s eyes torn away—eyes that would later become a chilling symbol of what comes after.

In "Tatter Up!", a greedy young man marries an elderly woman for her wealth, only to kill her when her hidden fortune eludes him. But his fate is sealed by the ragman—once a humble charity recipient, now a vengeful creature stitched together from the very rags she’d discarded—whose wrath is as relentless as the tattered threads that form his body.