The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #18

In "Hating Corpse," a desperate man's betrayal sets off a chilling chain of events when he agrees to a twisted deal that demands his wife’s divorce—only to be murdered before he can carry it out. Left with nothing but rage and a vow to protect the woman he loves, his hatred defies death, driving him to confront his killer long after his body has fallen. The mystery unfolds as the police struggle to make sense of a crime where the dead man’s final act seems impossible.

In "Lighthouse of the Dead," Old Pearly Marston, the solitary keeper of the Searock lighthouse, has long guarded the coast from the restless dead with his steady beam. When the lighthouse is dismantled, the dead rise in force, flooding the city to reclaim what they once lost. Marston must use his knowledge of the sea and the light to draw them back—before the tide turns against the living.

Frankie Stoker’s latest heist takes a grim turn when he steals a corpse from a funeral home, only to find the body slowly coming back to life—rebuilding itself, inch by inch. As the night wears on, the line between thief and prey begins to blur in terrifying ways.

In "Trumpet of Doom," a deranged old man named Gabriel Green stumbles upon a cursed instrument that awakens the dead, unleashing a zombie army bent on purging the city of sinners. As the streets fill with the reanimated, a mysterious figure emerges—someone who may be the only hope to stop the apocalypse from spiraling beyond control.

In a grimly theatrical twist, Professor Skane puts a zombie on stage as part of a macabre performance titled "The man who can't be killed." When a female zombie companion arrives, acting on behalf of the undead's union, her presence threatens to turn the show into something far more dangerous than mere spectacle.

In a remote corner of Haiti, a stranded aviator stumbles upon a house of the undead who welcome him with eerie hospitality. As he forms a bond with a mysterious zombie woman, he must flee the relentless horde and their snarling zombie dogs. When the choice comes, he decides to stay—drawn to a life beyond the living, in a world where love defies death.

In "Skeleton's Gibbet," gambler Keith Lester, burdened by debt and desperate to keep his family estate, crosses a line he can't return from. When his past sins catch up with him, he's summoned before a spectral tribunal of his own ancestors, forced to face a punishment as old as the bloodline itself.

In "Master of the Dead!", a disgraced French scientist and mystic named Pierre Jarnac, once imprisoned for his gruesome experiments on corpses, finds himself repurposed as caretaker of the Marne military cemetery. Now hidden among the graves of fallen soldiers from the First World War, he begins a quiet, chilling campaign to awaken the dead—his ultimate goal a silent, unstoppable army rising from the earth.

In "The Secret of the Walking Dead," scientist Peter Tam uses his role as a graveyard keeper to conduct forbidden experiments on the dead—until one night, his work awakens something far more dangerous than he intended. When he revives a corpse with a violent past, he quickly realizes too late that some secrets should stay buried.

In "I Was A Zombie," engineer Alden Blake travels to Haiti to oversee the construction of a dam, only to uncover a horrifying secret: the laborers are not just overworked, but undead. When Blake threatens to expose the truth, he becomes a zombie himself—yet even in undeath, he finds a way to strike back.