The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #22

In the eerie, shoe-shaped mansion built by eccentric shoemaker Philip Wuxton, his wife Jessica lives in quiet seclusion—until she marries the undertaker who buried her husband, only to see him die soon after. This pattern repeats with each new husband, each meeting a mysterious end, until her son Jerry Mason begins to uncover the unsettling truth behind his mother’s tragic cycle.

John Trent drags his wife Sue and their friend Morris Slattery to a supposedly haunted house for a prank, but the joke turns deadly when they find Morris dead inside. As the couple confronts the terrifying truth, they realize the house is no mere legend—it’s the lair of a vicious, axe-wielding old crone who doesn’t take kindly to trespassers.

In "Sound of Mourning," Mike McCoy, wrongfully executed for murdering his business partner, returns from the dead for just one hour—thanks to a secret medical experiment. With time running out, he sets out to confront the two people who betrayed him: his lawyer friend Bill Poindexter and his wife Eva, whose betrayal cut deeper than the bullet that sealed his fate.

Margie Smith, a sharp-eyed reporter from the Globe, finds herself in the middle of a deadly mystery during a high-stakes fashion show—where glamour hides a killer. With the help of her quick-witted photographer, Flash, she unravels clues that lead to a shocking arrest, all while wearing the very gown she designed and won first prize for.

In "Let Me Die Today," newlyweds Richard and Sylvia Porter begin their honeymoon on a quiet beach, only to be haunted by a crone’s chilling prophecy: Sylvia will die by the next day. When the prediction comes true in a sudden, tragic accident, Richard is consumed by grief—and desperate to join her. But the crone, with a cruel twist, sets his own death forty years in the future. Though he attempts to end his life by drowning, he’s saved and forced to live out the rest of his days, burdened by a fate he never chose.

Mark and Joyce, a young honeymooning couple, spend a restless night at the eerie Werewolf Castle in Germany, only to wake the next morning as its new masters—though their reign may be short-lived. The baron and baroness Gotha, hosts with a dark secret, have a way of welcoming the next chapter in their eternal game.