Terror Tales Album #9
"Death Is a Grave Matter" delivers a chilling twist in a summer camp horror tale from 1979, where a wheelchair-bound boy named Richard becomes the only one who sees the truth behind the camp's terrifying events. Written by Michael Fleisher and Maxene Fabe and illustrated with eerie precision by Alex Niño, the story unfolds as paranoia turns deadly among the campers. The cover by Luis Dominguez captures the unease perfectly, setting the tone for a tale where the line between alien invasion and human madness blurs.
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Little wheelchair-bound Richard is left by his parents at a strange summer camp. After one of the kids apparently drowns in a lake, the others begin murdering, one by one, the counselors, thinking they are aliens out to conquer the earth. Richard then tells this to the head counselor, but the other kids find out and want to kill him. As Richard flees he finds out that the counselors really were aliens, who then escape into outer space carrying away the entire camp to an unknown faraway destination.
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