The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #21

Frank Thompson’s delayed flight should have been a minor inconvenience—until the crash that claims the lives of everyone on board. Now, stranded in a hauntingly familiar city that shouldn’t exist, he finds himself pursued by unseen forces in a place where the lost never leave.

In "The Face in the Shroud," a failed seance plunges Helen into grief and suspicion when her husband Jim is killed by a spectral figure. Accused of murder, she must rely on Jim’s lingering presence to uncover the dark truth behind the haunting — and survive the sinister forces that want her silenced.

In "The Collector," hunter and collector Hunter Thaddeus Stevens finds his obsession with rare specimens tested when a perfect clone—born from a mysterious pool—begins tracking him through remote wilderness. As the line between hunter and prey blurs, one man’s pursuit of the extraordinary becomes a deadly game of mirrors.

In "A Rose Is a Rose," a young boy named Tommy—uniquely attuned to the suffering of flowers—struggles to reconcile his empathy with the cruel deception of his new foster parents, who insist that flowers thrive when cut. When he discovers the truth behind their lies, his gift becomes a weapon of devastating consequence.

On the anniversary of his brutal death, a man wronged by the Mob returns for one final game—just one hand of cards, but with a vengeance that’s been waiting in the shadows. In this chilling tale from *The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #21*, fate deals a deadly hand, and the stakes are more than just money.

In "Horror of the Cannibals' Dinner," a brutal plantation owner's cruelty ignites a vengeful spirit when he kills a girl and mutilates the tribe’s old witch doctor. Bound by death and fury, the witch doctor returns as a hauntingly beautiful force of retribution, drawing the master into the jungle’s depths. There, her people await—where the line between hunter and prey blurs into something far older, far darker.

In "I Walked at Midnight," two vampires locked in an ancient feud find their shared cemetery no longer enough to sustain them both. As hunger drives them to clash in the moonlit shadows, the quiet graveyard becomes the stage for a deadly struggle that will decide who remains—forever.

In "Nightmare Come True," a grocery clerk haunted by vivid dreams of monsters finds his visions spilling into reality—only to survive a terrifying encounter before seeking refuge in a hospital. As doctors sedate him, his dreams grow darker, unleashing chaos that threatens the city itself.

In "You Can't Cheat a Ghost," three desperate criminals hunt for buried pirate treasure, each playing a dangerous game of deception. When one claims to be the ghost of the dead pirate, the real specter emerges—unforgiving and bound to the sea.