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Terror Illustrated #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis box set collects the complete run of EC's Picto-Fiction line, reprinting all four titles—Terror Illustrated, Crime Illustrated, Confessions Illustrated, and Shock Illustrated—in a single slipcased set. Published by Russ Cochran in 2006, these volumes present the original black-and-white illustrated stories from the 1950s, offering a different format from EC's classic comic books while retaining the publisher's signature horror, crime, and suspense themes.
"Horror in the Freak Tent" delivers a chilling, dreamlike descent into dread, as Al awakens after a car crash to find himself stranded on a desolate road, met with terror at every turn—from a fleeing driver to a hobo and a woman who react in horror to his presence. As Al stumbles through a night of escalating unease, his journey leads him to a home he no longer recognizes and a friend whose face is horrifically altered, before he confronts a mirror that reveals a rotting reflection. The story, written by Al Feldstein and illustrated by George Evans with inks by Evans, is a masterclass in psychological horror, with a cover by Reed Crandall that perfectly captures the eerie, unsettling tone of the tale.
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Carl and Al are driving down a dark, lonely road when suddenly headlights appear in front of them, and there is a crash. Al awakens with torn clothes and a smell, asking a driver on the road for a lift to town, but the man screams and drives off. A similar reaction comes from a hobo and a woman, whose car he takes to his home, which has been foreclosed upon. Then he walks to his friend's house, but sees Carl without eyes and blind. Al walks to a mirror and sees his rotten and decomposed face, then is awakened...it has been a dream. Then car lights appear and there is a crash....for real!
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