The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #20

In "Crawling Evil," Lorna’s life unravels when she discovers a witchcraft book that twists her long-held hatred of men into a violent crusade—turning them into worms and crushing them with grim precision. But when her actions take a devastating personal turn, she faces a horrifying reckoning as the very creatures she summoned begin to crawl from the walls, drawn by her guilt and the poison she’s taken.

In "Lady or the Tigress?", a reclusive zoo owner finds himself entangled in a haunting obsession when a mysterious tigress arrives at his estate—her elegance masking a secret that blurs the line between beast and beauty. As the creature’s transformation into a pale, enigmatic woman stirs his heart, Donald Matson begins to question what he truly desires—and what price he might pay for it.

In "The Dead Are Never Lonely," actress Nolita’s life ends in a violent argument with her husband, but her spirit refuses to stay buried. As her corpse decays above ground, she wanders the border between life and death, seeking a way to break free from her final fate. When she finally returns to the afterlife, she finds an unexpected reunion—though not the one she expected.

Dr. Saunders’ quiet drive takes a horrifying turn when he strikes a woman on a remote country road. Though he saves her life with a blood transfusion, her gratitude comes at a terrible cost—she’s a vampire, and his blood was never the cure, but the first step in her hunger.

In "Love Me Forever!", Pierre Fabron turns to the mysterious Mamma Voudon for a love potion to win Roxanne, the most desired woman in the Bayou—though she’s made clear she has no interest in him. When the serum takes effect, Roxanne’s obsession becomes overwhelming, but Pierre soon grows tired of her constant devotion. After he kills her, her decaying body returns, driven by a love that refuses to die. Now haunted by the very spell he thought would give him power, Pierre must face the consequences of a love that lasts beyond the grave.

In "Marriage of the Monsters!", Prince Rah and Tleena’s forbidden love defies death itself—when their tragic fate is unearthed centuries later, their reawakened spirits seek justice against the descendant who dared to revive them. A chilling tale of ancient vengeance, where buried love and electric resurrection collide in a haunting twist of fate.

In "The Bride of the Crab," gold-digging Mona abandons her injured fiancé Donald after he’s hurt retrieving jewels from the mansion’s underwater caverns. Left for dead, Donald is rescued by a hidden lineage of crab-like humanoids—his long-lost family—who have defied death through a mysterious serum that transforms them into amphibious creatures. Now reborn as a monstrous bridegroom, the transformed Donald sets out to reclaim the woman who cast him aside.

In "Death Do Us Part," a diamond prospector survives a fall only to be rescued and cared for by a fiercely protective female baboon. Though he eventually escapes, the creature’s obsession follows him home—where it now threatens the woman he calls wife.

In "Two for the Money," Harvey Craig enjoys a lavish double life, married to two wealthy European women who live on opposite sides of town—neither knowing the other exists. As their lavish gifts and endless feasts grow increasingly strange, Harvey begins to suspect something is off, unaware that his wives’ obsession with fattening him up has a far more sinister reason than he could imagine.

In "Tomb for Two," John Morgan’s love for his bride Elsa becomes a terrifying obsession after her death. Haunted by grief, he steals her body from the grave and convinces a reluctant taxidermist, Bert, to preserve her—turning her into a macabre companion in a life that’s no longer his own.

In "Curse of the Fire-Bird," Lydia’s ruthless ambition sets off a chain of vengeance when her husband, Professor Burnett Firey, rises from the ashes as a vengeful phoenix after she strikes him down with a mace. Trapped in a burning estate with the flames of her own making, Lydia must face the fiery rebirth of the man she betrayed — a transformation that turns her inheritance into a deadly reckoning.

Jeff and Marjorie Capper seek refuge in a remote Tibetan cave during a sudden storm, unaware that their decision to light a black candle will awaken something ancient and terrible—zombie-like beings bound to the darkness. As the flickering flame stirs the still air, the fragile peace of the mountain cave begins to unravel. Sima watches from the shadows, her presence a silent warning in the growing dread.

In "Monsters of the Deep," diver Bill Hudson is taken captive by a tribe of ruthless mermaids, but when the young mermaid Lissa develops an unexpected bond with him, their fates become entangled in a dangerous game of loyalty and survival. As a desperate escape unfolds, the tide turns in ways no one could have predicted.

Mildred Joyce and the charming Leland Gaylord embark on a seemingly harmless bus tour of Manhattan, but the ride quickly takes a chilling turn when the bus begins showing gruesome scenes of murdered women—each one eerily familiar. As the corpses of past victims begin to appear on the bus, Mildred realizes the horrifying truth: Leland Gaylord isn’t just a suitor, he’s a killer, and the dead women are trying to warn her—or maybe even take revenge.

Don Simmons and his wife Betty Stevens inherit a mysterious antique clock, unaware of its cursed origins. When Don winds it backward, he’s hurled into a forgotten past where a cult of demonic pagans, led by the enigmatic Jorak, await a ritual sacrifice to break the veil between eras.

In "No Rest for the Dead," undertaker Lethan Krewal traps himself in a casket with the undead woman he loves, a twisted romance sealed in coffin and silence. The story unfolds in three chilling pages, where devotion takes a corpse-like turn and the line between love and entombment blurs.