Scream #3
The issue contains a vampire story in which a dying man is visited by a vampire who reveals that years earlier, when the man and his fiancée Christine were nearly drowned in a lake, the vampire saved them both by making Christine into his living bride. The vampire returns to claim Christine and presents the man with a wedding ring, while Christine suffers from a mysterious wasting disease marked by apathetic episodes and cataleptic attacks. The story concludes with the man's death announced in the newspapers three weeks later, after which a friend attempts to ease the melancholy of the unnamed lady Madeline through music and companionship, though her condition appears to involve some supernatural influence.
In the shadowed halls of the Paris Opera House, a young soprano’s dreams take a terrifying turn when she becomes the target of a disfigured phantom whose presence lingers just beyond sight. As her world narrows to whispers in the rafters and the chilling certainty of being watched, a daring rescue unfolds—guided by a masked admirer and a stranger with secrets of his own.
In "The Phantom of the Opera Chapter Two …The Torture Chamber…," the haunting presence of the disfigured Phantom tightens its grip as Christine Daae vanishes into the shadowed depths beneath the Paris Opera House. With Raoul determined to find her and the enigmatic Persian offering cryptic guidance, the line between terror and salvation grows perilously thin.
The young man arrives at the decaying House of Usher, summoned by his childhood friend Roderick, whose deteriorating mind and body are worsened by the mansion’s oppressive atmosphere and his sister Madeleine’s mysterious illness. As he settles in, he becomes increasingly unsettled by the house’s gloom, Roderick’s fragile state, and the eerie presence of Madeleine, whose condition defies medical explanation.
In the crumbling mortuary of North Bay, two longtime partners in the funeral business—Crypts and Graves—stand on the brink of murder, each convinced the other plans to kill them over a new hearse and a growing rift in their decades-long partnership. As they trade barbs and veiled threats, their shared history of deception, theft, and dark secrets surfaces, revealing that their rivalry may be rooted in a past too twisted to survive. The story unfolds with chilling precision, leaving only the question of who will outwit the other before the final act.
In the swamps of the Everglades, a hunter known only as Charles Freeman recounts his dangerous mission to retrieve a hidden trunk from the mud, driven by a mysterious offer of a million dollars. Though he’s skeptical of the man who hired him, a reclusive figure named Nicholas Dickens, he’s drawn into a perilous descent into the swamp’s depths—where ancient, unseen horrors stir beneath the surface.
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Reprinted in Dossier Negro #56 (1974), Dossier Negro #57 (1974), Dossier Negro #58 (1974), Dossier Negro #67 (1974), The Phantom of the Opera #1 (1988), Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat and Other Stories #1 (1989), Profondo Rosso presenta Tenebre #4 (1991), Gwandanaland Comics #2370 (2019)
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