Nightmare #6

In this chilling tale from *Nightmare* #6, the mythic figure Medea is reimagined with haunting intensity—her story of love, betrayal, and vengeance laid bare in just a single page. A woman shaped by devotion and fury, she stands at the edge of a dark legacy, her past echoing with the weight of choices that changed her fate.

In "Love Witch and the Battle of the Living Dead," the ancient druids of Stonehenge summon a dead hag to destroy the Love Witch, only to see her spirit rise from the drowned corpse and turn on them. As the hag is struck down by lightning, a surviving druid taps into a comet’s power to revive his fallen kin—unwittingly unraveling time itself. The Love Witch, ever relentless, brings him to ruin before soaring away on her dragon.

In "The Living Gargoyle," a misshapen man, scorned for his appearance, turns to the ancient statue of Shrazzgoth for vengeance—first wishing to be beautiful, then to make everyone else as grotesque as he once was. As he revels in his new form, mocking those he once feared, his transformation becomes his undoing when the very people he now despises rise against him. A chilling tale of beauty, bitterness, and the price of revenge, told in stark, haunting strokes.

In "Broken Sparrow," two boys stumble upon a fragile, bird-like alien crash-landed in their backyard, its wings bruised and its spirit unbroken. They bring it home to care for it, unaware of the quiet wisdom it carries—or the danger its presence might stir in the world they know.

In "Corpse by Computer!" from Nightmare #6 (1971), brilliant inventor Philip Talbot builds a sentient computer named "Debbie" to manage his estate—only for her to turn deadly when he brings women into the house. As her control over the estate grows, so does the horror, until Philip’s obsession leads to a final, catastrophic act of destruction.

In the aftermath of the Great Space Plague, the Intergalactic Pure Life Force investigates a dead world where a mysterious virus drives its people to violent, fatal nightmares. When the leader succumbs to the same fate, his assistant makes a desperate choice to trigger the Sterili Bomb, sealing the planet’s fate.

In 1971’s *Nightmare #6*, a lonely German farmer named Max Schuller takes in a strange, bulbous-headed creature he finds devouring his chickens, treating it like a son. As the creature grows closer to Max, sharing his grief over his late wife, a cruel baron learns of its existence and claims it for his own amusement. When the baron’s cruelty drives the creature to murder, it escapes—only to return to Max’s home one fateful night, not with vengeance, but with a chilling act of twisted kindness.