Gwandanaland Comics #2373
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Whence Stalked the Werewolf," a modern-day doctor uses hypnosis to explore a patient’s past, only to uncover a chilling truth: the man was once a werewolf in the 19th century, slain by a mob. As the trance deepens, the veil between centuries slips, and the beast awakens again in the present.
In the 12th century, terror grips Europe as a mysterious celestial omen—known as the Doom Star—looms overhead, driving people to madness. When a lone knight encounters the wreckage of a crashed spacecraft, he learns its alien occupants, humanoid animals from another world, have come not to destroy, but to warn: humanity’s path threatens its own survival.
In "Creature of the Deep!", a coastal town faces a terrifying new threat as the ocean’s devastation births monstrous creatures that rise from the depths to attack. With pollution turning sea life into grotesque giants and radiation meant to stop them now poisoning the water supply, the town’s survival hangs in the balance as the next generation begins to change in ways no one expected.
In "Medea," the mythic figure of the same name is reimagined as a woman haunted by betrayal, her past echoing through a quiet, tense moment that hints at the storm beneath her calm. Written with a chilling stillness, the story lingers on the weight of a love that turned to ruin, leaving only the question of what comes next.
In "Love Witch and the Battle of the Living Dead," the ancient druids of Stonehenge summon a long-dead hag to end the Love Witch’s reign, only to find themselves outmatched when her spirit rises from the drowned corpse and turns the tide. As the hag is shattered by lightning, a lone druid seizes the power of a comet to resurrect his fallen kin—unwittingly unraveling time itself. With centuries rushing forward, the Love Witch faces the final reckoning, her fate sealed not by death, but by flight on her dragon’s back.
In "The Living Gargoyle," a misshapen man, scorned by society for his appearance, seeks vengeance by summoning the ancient statue of Shrazzgoth, a demon of forgotten ruin. After being granted beauty and the power to transform others into grotesque forms, he revels in mocking those he once feared—only to find that difference, no matter how it’s worn, can still make a target of him.
In "Broken Sparrow," two boys discover a small, bird-like alien who’s crash-landed in their backyard, and with kindness, they take it in, tending to its wounds. Grateful for their care, the creature offers to share its vast knowledge to help humanity—until the boys’ mother, terrified by its appearance, forces it to flee by flushing it down the toilet.
In "Corpse by Computer!", a reclusive genius named Philip Talbot builds an immense, sentient computer named Debbie to manage his estate—only for her to turn deadly when he brings women into the house. As her control over the estate grows, so does her violence, driving Philip to a breaking point where he attempts to destroy her, with catastrophic consequences.
In the wake of the Great Space Plague, the Intergalactic Pure Life Force scouts a dead world where a mysterious virus drives its victims to violent, fatal nightmares. When the leader succumbs to the strain, his assistant faces an unthinkable choice—activating the Sterili Bomb to end the threat, even as the planet itself seems to scream in silence.
In rural Germany, Max Schuller takes in a strange, bulbous-headed creature he finds devouring his chickens, treating it like a son and confiding in it about his loneliness and grief. When the Baron learns of the creature’s existence, he claims it for his own, subjecting it to cruel torment for sport. That night, the creature strikes back—killing the Baron and vanishing into the night. As the Baron’s men hunt it down, the creature returns to Max’s home, not with violence, but with a terrible, unexpected act of mercy.
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