Tales from the Tomb #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Web of Terror," entomologist Damon Rankin ventures to a remote Caribbean island seeking rare specimens—until he encounters a fabled red spider. His decision to kill it unleashes an ancient, unseen evil he never anticipated.
In "The Corpse Macabre," a man desperate to inherit his ailing wife’s fortune takes a fatal step too far—only to find himself trapped in a macabre promise he never intended to keep. After she dies, he discovers her final wish: to be buried in her family tomb, laid to rest in a perfect replica of her bedroom. But when he returns to the tomb that night, the dead are not so easily silenced—and the walls of the tomb begin to breathe.
In "The Witch Doctor," Peter Dane stumbles upon a mysterious potion that transforms men into feral, leopard-like creatures. As his obsession grows, he experiments with the substance on his wife Alice—she collapses but remains unchanged, leaving Peter consumed by paranoia and rage. When his madness reaches its peak, a vengeful spirit from the past intervenes, sending him tumbling to his doom.
In "The Bloody Thing," Dr. Marvelle, the world’s most brilliant explorer and scientist, discovers a baby dinosaur frozen in an underground cave. After reviving it with his secret formula, the creature grows at an impossible rate—so fast it soon dwarfs the Earth, hurling the planet from its orbit and crashing it into the Sun. Waking from a nightmare, Marvelle breathes a sigh of relief—until he spots massive dinosaur footprints leading from his lab into the distance.
In "Gruesome Shock," a tense vacation at a remote lodge takes a dark turn when a vengeful ex-partner surfaces to threaten a business executive and his wife. As secrets unravel and fear takes hold, the couple’s peaceful retreat becomes a trap of guilt and dread—especially when the shocking truth of their guest list comes to light.
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Reprints
↩ Reprints Witches Tales #6 (1951), Black Cat Comics #34 (1952), Witchcraft #3 (1952), Witchcraft #6 (1953), Witches Tales #18 (1953), Witches Tales #21 (1953), Voodoo #17 (1954), Weird #10 (1966)
Reprinted in Horror Tales #1 (1971), Tales of Voodoo #1 (1971), Witches Tales #1 (1971), Terror Tales #3 (1973), Weird #4 (1973), Tales of Voodoo #4 (1973), Weird #4 (1976), Voodoo #2 (1977), Horror Tales #2 (1977), Weird #1 (1979), Weird Vampire Tales #2 (1979), The Empty Tombs #[nn] (1980)
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