Tales from the Crypt #27
In "Well-Cooked Hams!", a chilling tale from the early days of EC’s *Tales from the Crypt*, a woman’s twisted devotion to her late mother drives her to commit a series of calculated murders—each disguised as an accident—over six years. Written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, with art by Joe Orlando and inks by the same, the story unfolds with a quiet dread that builds to a haunting climax. The cover, a stark and unsettling scene by Wally Wood, captures the story’s grim tone perfectly.
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A woman raises her daughter to hate men and so for six years she murders a husband a year, making each appear an accidental death, as trophies for her departed mother. The seventh victim is not quite dead when he drags himself from the airplane wreck she caused, and thus she has to finish the job off herself with a large rock. When he is interred with the other six dead men that are ignorant they've been murdered "the wind...comes up...seems to sound like a whisper...telling the others..." When she is alone in the cemetery the corpses rise and drag her down into the earth with them.
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