Psycho #10
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Suicide Werewolf," the Heap awakens on a mysterious island haunted by animated dinosaur skeletons, facing off against a deranged hermit named Johann Van Warner—once a special effects technician who turned the island into a macabre menagerie of moving bone. Written by Al Hewetson and illustrated by Marcos, this eerie 1973 Skywald thriller blends prehistoric horror and psychological decay, with a cover by Pablo Marcos and Fernando that captures the grotesque spectacle in bold, dynamic lines.
In "The Suicide Werewolf," a man consumed by the belief he’s a cursed beast spirals into violence before ending his life in a desperate leap before a subway train. The story unfolds with chilling ambiguity, revealing he was an experimental robot—yet his shattered remains, found in the wreckage, still hold flesh and bone, leaving the truth buried beneath a mystery that refuses to stay dead.
In the quiet Minnesota town of his final days, mortician Peter Piper finds an unexpected purpose when a small, mite-like alien arrives seeking help to preserve its deceased mate. With quiet dignity, he performs the task, and in return, the alien carries the body away—leaving Peter at peace as he passes on.
In "Even a Heap Can Die!" from Psycho #10 (1973), the Heap awakens on a forgotten island to face a nightmare of animated dinosaur skeletons—Pterodactyls and Triceratops—before confronting a deranged hermit on a Brontosaurus skeleton. The hermit, Johann Van Warner, a once-retired special effects technician, has gone mad building his macabre menagerie, and when the Heap is shot and transformed back into his monstrous form, the line between creator and creation blurs in a final, desperate struggle.
In "The Transplant!!," a doctor agrees to a bizarre procedure: transplanting the brain of a wealthy, dying woman into the body of a recently deceased young woman. When he checks on his patient months later, he’s stunned to find the once-beautiful body ravaged by disease—revealing the horrifying truth behind the young woman’s suicide.
In "Tightrope to Nowhere," a reclusive projectionist finds solace in the flickering light of a dying theater, where films are his only companions. When the building’s demolition threatens to end his solitary world, his desperation leads to a violent act—and a final, fatal chase across rooftops. After death, he returns, drawn back to the screen where, in a haunting echo of his own fate, he meets his end once more alongside the vampire he once loved to watch.
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Reprinted in Vampyr #5 (1972), Dossier Negro #44 (1973), Dossier Negro #45 (1973), Dossier Negro #66 (1974), Vampus #51 (1975), Dossier Negro #69, Psycho #3
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