Haunt of Fear #1
In "The Wall: A Psychological Study," a chilling tale from Haunt of Fear #1 (1985), a farmer’s secret betrayal unfolds in a quiet field where buried guilt takes root—literally. Written, drawn, and inked by Johnny Craig, with lettering by Jim Wroten, the story unfolds with a tense, creeping dread as secrets buried beneath the soil begin to bloom. The haunting cover by Al Feldstein sets the tone for a tale where every shadow holds a memory and every flower hides a truth.
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A farmer's wife and the hired hand are having an affair, so the farmer kills the hand one evening and buries him along with some flower seeds he had purchased that day in the field. When the farmer's wife leaves for the city to inquire as to Cliff's whereabouts, the farmer corners his wife in an alley and threatens her with violence. She clouts him with a lead pipe and stuffs him into a garbage can which the sanitation workers load into the compacter truck. When the wife returns to the farm through the field she comes across the newly sprouted flowers and realizes what must have happened.
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