The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #16

When landlord Semple Ridgedon demolishes a building haunted by a secret society of killers, he believes he’s erased the past—but the Cult of Death refuses to stay buried. As modern renovations rise from the rubble, the 13 ghosts return to demand he fulfill his old promise: join their ranks.

Bruce Gibson, a ghost hunter with a taste for the occult, takes a bold gamble by purchasing a haunted house and daring a mysterious dark stranger to unleash his worst horrors. When the stranger summons a monstrous entity from the remains of four dead men, a black bull, and a drop of Gibson’s blood, the hunter finds himself locked in a deadly game of wits with a force beyond his control.

Edgar Clay visits his wife Miriam’s grave, haunted by guilt after her death, only to witness the dead rising at dusk—each rewriting their epitaphs with long-buried truths. When he sees Miriam’s stone change, revealing she was waiting for another man when she fell, his grief twists into something far more unsettling.

Eric Barnes, an audio engineer, finds himself at the mercy of Count Pramevi, a sinister vampire who demands he build a device to preserve his voice for eternity. As Barnes works under duress, he devises a desperate plan—crafting a supersonic weapon disguised as a recording machine. When the device activates, it disrupts the count’s flight, sending him crashing to the ground.

When the witches descend on the Rainey farm at midnight, only Peter—the rooster—might be able to save young Joel. As the family trembles under the shadow of Satan’s nightly visit, Peter’s unexpected courage turns the tide, proving even a farmbird can be a legend in his own right.

In "Candles for the Undead," a struggling candle maker pushed to his limits turns to dark rituals to keep his failing craft alive, digging graves to fuel his trade—only to awaken forces he never meant to summon. The story unfolds with quiet dread, following a man whose desperation blurs the line between survival and damnation.

In the scorching heart of the jungle, a desperate man curses the sun, unaware he’s just invited a far more ancient wrath. When the local witchdoctor strikes back with a chilling vow, he’s condemned to endure the sun’s fury—sent to serve Soltan, the Sun King, in a torment beyond fire.

In the grim aftermath of a brutal game, Coach Will Rawson’s merciless coaching leaves a player dead—Bud Fowler, whose brother Jack vows a chilling retribution. What follows is a dark, visceral tale of vengeance, where grief twists into something grotesque, and the legacy of a fallen athlete is reborn in the most unsettling form.

Joseph, a man driven by obsession, sees tragedy as opportunity when Delores Martiz dies on her wedding day. He resurrects her not once, but twice—each return deeper into the unnatural—yet still, she remains beyond his grasp.

In "Your Head for Mine," a woman's desperate plan to escape her wealthy husband sets off a chilling chain of events when her lover carries out the murder—only to discover that the husband's headless corpse refuses to stay dead. As the couple begins their new life together, they must confront the horrifying reality that the dead man is searching for a replacement head, and the stakes grow more personal with every passing night.

In "Mind Over Matter," a desperate doctor uncovers a terrifying secret from a dying mystic: the power to enter another person’s mind. When he tests it on a homicidal maniac, the experience nearly kills him—his own thoughts turning against him in a nightmare of pure malice. The story ends with the doctor, shaken and changed, vowing to keep the secret buried.

Trapped in the dim, silent storage room behind Professor Caglio’s wax exhibition of history’s most notorious killers, Elsa and her boyfriend Terry find the air thick with dread. As the lifelike figures seem to shift in the shadows, they must unravel the eerie truth behind the museum’s unsettling displays before the night claims them.