Horror Tales #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Vampire Lives!", a wealthy woman inherits an Italian villa haunted by a grim legend: every 25 years, a vampire stirs from its tomb to claim a new victim. Oscar Fraga’s striking artwork brings the eerie atmosphere to life, capturing the tension of a house steeped in secrets and shadow. A 50-cent comic from 1971, this issue delivers classic horror suspense with a chilling premise and no hints of how it might end.
In "The Vampire Lives!", a wealthy woman arrives at an eerie Italian villa, undeterred by whispers of a vampire buried on the grounds who awakens every quarter-century to claim a new victim. The air grows thick with dread as shadows stretch long and the past refuses to stay buried.
In "Cadaver's Revenge," Martin Jacoby's joy at his boss's death turns to horror when his celebration at the graveside ends in a gruesome twist—dancing on the grave proves fatal as the earth gives way and the gravestone crushes him. The story unfolds with chilling precision, blending dark irony and suspense in a tale where the dead may not stay buried.
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↩ Reprints Challenge of the Unknown #6 (1950), Weird Terror #1 (1952), Voodoo #4 (1952), Strange Fantasy #5 (1953), Tales of Voodoo #6 (1970)
Reprinted in Weird #5 (1973), Weird #4 (1976), Terror Tales #1 (1977), Satan's Corpse #[nn] (1978), Wicked Witchs' Tales [sic] #1 (1978), Horror Tales #2 (1978), Weird #1 (1979), Weird Vampire Tales #3 (1979), Weird Vampire Tales #3 [4] (1982)
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