Horrific #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Tail of Death," Amos Hatter struggles to protect his younger brother Joseph, a brilliant but unstable scientist whose reckless experiment backfires—shrinkingly reducing Joseph to mouse size. As the drug’s effects wear off, the terrified Joseph must flee a deadly hunt through the shadows, pursued by a cat and a rat, while his brother’s fate hangs in the balance. Illustrated with stark, expressive energy by the Iger Shop, this 1952 horror tale delivers a chilling, suspenseful descent into primal fear—cover by the Iger Shop.
In "Tail of Death," Jo, a brilliant but unstable scientist, accidentally shrinks himself to mouse size while experimenting with a dangerous formula. His older brother, Amos, tries to help him return to normal, but when Jo panics and kills Amos in fear, he’s left alone—smaller than ever—and now hunted by a cat and a rat in a world that’s grown deadly.
In "Terror On High," two criminals, Ralph and Jerry, venture into a remote Bavarian monastery, drawn by rumors of priceless gems hidden among the preserved bodies in its frozen cellar. After stealing the jewels and fleeing to their isolated cabin, they soon realize their escape may not be enough—something from the mountain’s frozen past is hunting them.
In "The Clay Coffin," sculptress Hortense Hollingsworth—plain in appearance but gifted with a genius for beauty—turns her husband Grover’s infidelity into a chilling act of transformation. After poisoning the new maid and turning her into a statue, Hortense undergoes secret plastic surgery, emerging as the very woman Grover now desires. As he makes advances toward her, the past begins to close in.
In "The Vengeful Corpse," fisherman John Penn thinks he’s escaped justice—until the body of old Silas Barnes, whom he murdered for gold, drags itself back from the sea and tangles in his net. When his crewman Abner sees the corpse, Penn silences him with another murder, but now the dead aren’t done. Haunted by two spectral figures and drawn ever deeper into the ocean’s grip, Penn’s fate is no longer his own.
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Reprinted in Jerry Iger's Golden Features #5 (1986), Pulp Fiction #1 (1997), Scream Comics #1 (1998), Crypt of Horror #21 (2014), Gwandanaland Comics #653 (2017), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic #2 (2018), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic #3 (2018), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic #4 (2019)
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