Nightmare #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Man Who Became... Frankenstein's Monster," a 1971 Skywald classic, a world ravaged by pollution gives rise to monstrous sea creatures and a terrifying new generation of mutant children. Written by Chuck McNaughton and illustrated by Jack Katz with inks by Jack Abel and lettering by Jean Simek, the story unfolds in a chillingly plausible nightmare where radiation meant to stop the beasts has only worsened the crisis. The cover, a striking piece by Boris Vallejo, captures the dread of a world on the brink.
In "Slime World," a couple exploring the famed sewers of Paris stumbles upon a hidden society of cannibalistic mutants, plunging them into a nightmare beneath the city's surface. The story unfolds with creeping dread, as the familiar becomes grotesquely alien in the dark, damp tunnels.
In "Whence Stalked the Werewolf," a modern man's mind is unlocked by a doctor's hypnosis, revealing a shocking past: in the 19th century, he was a werewolf hunted and slain by a mob. Now, in the present, the spell of the past awakens within him, and the beast stirs once more.
In the 12th century, Europe trembles as a mysterious "Doom Star" looms in the sky, driving people to madness. A lone knight encounters a strange spacecraft carrying humanoid animals, who deliver a dire warning: humanity's self-destructive path must change—or face its end.
In "Creature of the Deep," the ocean’s devastation has birthed monstrous creatures that rise from the depths to terrorize the coast, while the very radiation meant to stop them seeps into the water supply—leaving behind a chilling new threat in the form of mutant infants. Written by an unknown hand and illustrated by an unknown artist, this 1971 horror-suspense tale turns the sea into a nightmare, where survival means facing what humanity itself has created.
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Reprinted in Dossier Negro #28 (1971), Gru #9 (1972), The 1974 Nightmare Yearbook #1 (1974), The 1974 Psycho Yearbook #[nn] (1974), Psycho #[22] (1974), Vampus #41 (1975), Vampirella #16 (1977), L'Écho des Savanes Spécial U.S.A. #12 (1979), Totem Extra #16 (1981), Creepy #65 (1984), Reese's Pieces #1 (1985), Gwandanaland Comics #2373 (2019), Delta #4
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