Psycho #16
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freePsycho #16 is a horror anthology featuring multiple stories. The main story, "Monsters Battle for the Blood of the 'Old Vampire Lady,'" follows a woman named Kirsten guiding her horses over rough terrain while dark thoughts plague her mind; an old gypsy woman observes her arrival at a camp, sensing an unseen darkness and tension that will not leave. Another story, "The Thing in the Box," presents a mysterious tale introduced as a "sampler" or tease to readers, asking if their appetite is whet for the story to come. A third story involves investigators discovering an unidentified, shapeshifting creature that consumes objects and victims, leaving only skeletal remains; the creature proves nearly impervious to bullets and poses a threat that could be "anything, anywhere," even an unmarked police car.
A young man arrives at a graveyard to interview an elderly woman rumored to be a vampire, only to hear her recount a life that began in 1776—her childhood in New Orleans, her time at a European school where her headmistress was a vampiress, and her fateful romance with the infamous Baron Meinster. As she speaks, the line between memory and menace blurs, and the truth of her centuries-long existence begins to unfold in chilling detail.
A young woman named Clarice is murdered on her wedding day by her groom, who reveals he only married her for her money and planned the killing from the start. As he boasts about the perfect crime, the story takes a chilling turn when Clarice’s corpse begins to move — not as a victim, but as something far older and more sinister, with a red ribbon in its hair.
A young man ventures into a cluttered potato shed to clear out the overgrown roots, unaware that something dormant in a forgotten box begins to stir. As strange sounds echo through the dark, musty space, he realizes too late that whatever is in the box is not meant to be disturbed.
Detective Harry Janos and his subordinate Frank Purdon investigate a series of bizarre murders near the Fox River, where victims are found reduced to skeletons in places that once held bathtubs or swimming pools. As they uncover a pattern of impossible crimes—bodies vanishing, objects transforming into monstrous entities—they begin to suspect that the river itself is alive with a grotesque, predatory force feeding on the careless and the forgotten.
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Reprinted in Dossier Negro #56 (1974), Dossier Negro #57 (1974), Dossier Negro #68 (1975), Fright #6 (1989), Vampyres #4 (1989), Vampyres #[nn] (1991)
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