Harvey Horrors Collected Works: Witches Tales #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis volume collects the second batch of issues from Harvey Comics' classic horror anthology Witches Tales, presented as part of PS Artbooks' Harvey Horrors Collected Works series. Featuring the pre-Code era's macabre stories and artwork, it showcases the publisher's signature blend of supernatural chills and eerie illustrations from the 1950s and early 1960s.
"Toys of Terror!" from Harvey Horrors Collected Works: Witches Tales #2 (2012) delivers a chilling dive into madness and transformation, as Professor Durando, dismissed by his peers, pushes his serum experiments to the extreme—testing its power on himself with terrifying consequences. Rendered in bold, expressive art by Joe Certa, the story unfolds with a creeping dread that lingers long after the final page. The cover, a striking piece by Lee Elias, captures the tale’s eerie essence with vintage horror flair.
In "Toys of Terror!" from *Harvey Horrors Collected Works: Witches Tales #2*, an old witch breathes life into three forgotten toys—among them a doll with no eyes—commanding two of them to hunt and return with eyes to restore their missing companion. The story unfolds with quiet dread as the toys move through a moonlit house, their purpose clear but their fate unknown.
In "Demon Flies!", Dr. Gilbert unleashes a twisted experiment gone horrifically right, turning his scorned colleagues into prey with swarms of deadly, aggressive flies. Now trapped by his own creation, he must summon a far more monstrous force—a giant spider—to reclaim control before the flies consume everything.
In "The Flaming Horror!", Frederick Barcley—driven by a monstrous obsession with immortality—meets a fiery end at the hands of his own greedy nephew. But death doesn’t stop him: from the furnace flames, Barcley’s vengeful ghost rises, seeking retribution in a tale of twisted science and supernatural wrath.
In "Cloth of Terror," a vengeful ghost named Jeremiah Brant returns from the grave to haunt the tailor shop he once shared with his murderer, Caleb Wilks. As Wilks tries to run the business alone, the tailor’s needle and thread take on a deadly life of their own—sewing not just fabric, but fate.
In "Return from the Tomb," Carleton Mulford seizes control of the theater after murdering his partner, only to face a vengeful ghost whose presence haunts every performance. As the theater's stage becomes a stage for terror, the actors vanish one by one—each death tied to the play being performed.
In "The Web of the Spider," Professor Durando takes a dangerous leap, testing his mysterious serum on himself when the scientific community dismisses his theories. What begins as a desperate bid for proof spirals into something far more unsettling, as the line between man and monster blurs in ways he never anticipated.
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↩ Reprints Witches Tales #8 (1952), Witches Tales #9 (1952), Witches Tales #10 (1952), Witches Tales #11 (1952), Witches Tales #12 (1952), Witches Tales #13 (1952), Witches Tales #14 (1952)
Reprinted in Creepy Worlds #250 (2025)
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