Horrific #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue features "The Horrible Trade," in which a man named John Lewis returns to an African safari camp with a bagged lion, but his friend Kenneth King—revealed to be a coward—had actually caught the beast. When supernatural cats mysteriously appear at a temple, Dick and Mary seek shelter indoors, only to discover the felines are not ordinary animals but shape-shifting wolves that transform into human form and hunt the couple through the night. The wolves pursue the pair relentlessly, ultimately attacking them as midnight chimes sound, with the creatures seeking to kill and possess the terrified humans.
When Doris Duncan abandons her shallow, wealthy life after a harrowing supernatural encounter, she crosses paths with her former fiancé Harmon Smith and recounts the dark events that changed her—a tale of greed, murder, and a descent into damnation that began with her manipulative sister Iris. Drawn by forces beyond her control into depths no living person should witness, Doris emerged forever marked, now dedicating herself to helping troubled children instead of chasing money and status. The Teller and his demonic associates have a warning for anyone tempted to follow the path of cruelty and avarice.
In the shadow of a crumbling Asian temple, adventurer Don O'Neil struggles to convince his reluctant lover Felice to leave their home—but her mysterious terror of the wild cats that prowl the ruins hints at secrets she's desperate to keep hidden. When the creatures reveal themselves as intelligent, humanoid vampire cats seeking human recruits, Don makes a terrible choice to save Felice's life, only to discover the woman he loves has been hiding a shocking truth all along. A tale of twisted devotion and supernatural transformation where the real horror lies not in the claws, but in the heart.
A young tourist couple, Don and Mary, seek shelter for the night in a decrepit house after wrecking their car in the superstitious mountain country—only to encounter a strange little girl and, as midnight strikes, a pack of nightmarish wolves that seem bent on vengeance. As Walter Werewolf recounts, the line between the real and the imagined grows terrifyingly thin, and what Don and Mary thought they escaped may still be hunting them under the cover of darkness.
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Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics #[nn] (2008), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #13 (2015), PS Artbooks Softee: Terrific #[nn] (2021), Cryptology #2 (2025)
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