Tales from the Crypt #2
"Reflection of Death!" is a chilling tale from Tales from the Crypt #2 (1979), written by Al Feldstein and illustrated with haunting precision by Graham Ingels, whose inks deepen the story’s dread. When a corrupt mayor is murdered and framed with a forged suicide note, the truth remains buried—until the new mayor’s victory brings the past to light, sparking a gruesome reckoning. The cover, penciled and inked by Feldstein, captures the story’s grim tone with a stark, unsettling image.
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A political rival for the office of mayor poisons the current mayor and leaves a suicide note confessing graft and corruption on the table in order to smear the mayor's past reputation and cement his victory in the election. However, a stray wind blows the note off the table underneath a bookcase. When the current mayor is found dead, an autopsy is performed and the whole town knows the mayor had been poisoned, but at the lavish funeral he wonders why no one found the note. Eventually the note does turn up after he wins the election, and he whips up so much ill will toward the previous mayor that they exhume his body from the graveyard and dump it out at sea. One day, while the mayor is out at sea fishing in a rowboat, a storm blows up suddenly. He attempts to bring up anchor, but it appears to be stuck on something. He peers over the side of the rowboat, and the hand of his victim's corpse thrusts out and pulls him into the depths.
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