Nightmare #4

In "Phantom Of The Rock Era," a desperate groupie sets her sights on Roddy Skeane, the enigmatic new star of the music scene, hoping to cash in on his fame. But when she stumbles into his secret world, she discovers the truth: Skeane is part of the spectral "Decrepit Chord," a band of undead musicians who don’t take kindly to intruders—and have a far more permanent plan for their newest fan.

In "Shoot-Out At Satan’s Coffin," newlyweds Holly and Keith find themselves trapped in the cursed ghost town of Satan’s Coffin after stumbling upon a pair of ruthless prospectors exploiting slave labor in a deadly uranium mine. The radiation has twisted the miners into grotesque humanoids and transformed a gila monster into a monstrous, dinosaur-like beast named Rex. With the prospectors closing in and no escape, the couple’s only hope lies in an Indian medallion gifted by a Molevis woman—its ancient power summoning the vengeful spirits of long-dead outlaws to defend them.

In "The Mad Mind Doctor!" from Nightmare #4 (1971), a sadistic psychiatrist named Dr. Streichman preys on patients who believe they’re monsters, punishing them with brutal physical abuse. When he kills a younger doctor who dares to challenge his methods, the very patients he tormented—driven by his cruelty—finally become the monsters they once feared.

In 1793, during the chaos of the French Revolution, a condemned old hag meets a gruesome end—only to awaken in Hell, where a cunning demon named Vogt offers her a twisted bargain: return to the world of the living, but as a headless body confined to an asylum. The story unfolds with eerie precision, blending historical dread and supernatural horror in a tale that lingers long after the final page.

In "A Living Death!", a hippie vampire named Derek Williamson preys on a police lieutenant’s sister, turning her into a creature of the night. When Derek targets the lieutenant’s fiancée, the officer takes grim, personal vengeance on the beach, where the truth of the undead’s curse comes into brutal focus.

In the shadowed halls of a Renaissance chapel, a young painter’s desperate plea to Satan ignites a curse that transcends death. When his beloved is stolen by a cruel duke, Cristoforo’s art becomes a vessel of vengeance—and a demon is born from the brushstrokes. Every midnight, the painting comes alive, and the cycle of retribution begins anew.