The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #23

In "Realm of Lost Faces," Soviet adviser Ivanovitch pays a terrible price after desecrating a mystical Chinese mask, losing his face to a curse that haunts him beyond death. Now a ghostly wanderer in the afterworld, he must search for his missing features while evading the very comrades who once shot him.

In "Lair of the Silken Doom," silk merchant Stanley Raffel is drawn into a dangerous partnership with the enigmatic and alluring Lycia, whose exquisite silks seem too perfect to be real. As his fascination deepens, he begins to notice unsettling details—threads that shimmer with an unnatural sheen, and a silence that follows her like a shadow. The truth about her true nature is woven into every delicate strand, and Raffel is slowly unraveling the web he thought he was mastering.

In a fog-drenched French sea port, the fishermen wage a desperate battle against monstrous creatures from the deep—half-man, half-sea beast, rising from the waves with unnatural fury. Only old Fernande survives the slaughter, her hands trembling as she mounts a severed finger on display, a grim trophy from a night the moon burned red.

Ben Ober, a struggling painter desperate for cash, hatches a risky plan to fake his own death and collect his insurance—only to find the grave is far more real than he bargained for. When the ritual goes awry, the silence beneath the earth begins to stir, and the line between deception and damnation blurs.

In the frozen wilds of the Yukon, Mike Lucas strikes gold—only to drown in his own greed when he betrays his companions. The spirit of the totem god Unalka, awakened by his crimes, begins a slow, merciless reckoning. As the land itself turns against him, Lucas must face the price of his betrayal in a story where justice is ancient, and the shadows remember.

In the eerie depths of the Sargasso Sea, American adventurer Gil Morgan stumbles upon a ghost ship crewed by spectral pirates led by the legendary Captain Anne Bonny. Drawn to her charm and haunted by her past, Morgan finds himself caught in a deadly romance as they sail together, hunting unsuspecting vessels. But when desire turns to betrayal, the line between love and vengeance becomes as unforgiving as the sea itself.

A quiet family—father, son, and a mother confined to a wheelchair—seems unremarkable in the sleepy village of Hillory Hill. But as darkness falls, the townsfolk begin to vanish, each death more terrifying than the last. The truth behind the Hillorys’ peaceful facade is far more sinister than anyone could have imagined.

In "Fangs of the Fiend," a jealous dentist takes a grotesque revenge by replacing his rival’s teeth with those of a dog, unleashing a monstrous transformation. When the resulting werewolf goes on a rampage, the doctor’s twisted experiment backfires—only to leave him bitten and doomed to become the very beast he created.

In "He Who Robs The Dead," grave robber Albert Torrence thinks he’s struck gold when he uncovers a hidden treasure beneath a cemetery—until the jewels he spends begin to lead him down a deadly path. As the line between the living and the dead blurs, Torrence realizes the dead aren’t done with him, and their vengeance is far from buried.

When night guard Tillston stumbles upon a hidden formula that brings stone statues to life, he unleashes a terrifying power—using them to settle old scores and exact revenge on those who wronged him. As the museum’s silent guardians begin to move, one man’s quest for justice spirals into a nightmare only detective Dorne may be able to stop.

In "The 5 Lives of Otto Marlin," a desperate mad scientist’s obsession with past lives spirals into a deadly chase across centuries. After poisoning Vivian Lake to uncover her previous incarnations, Otto Marlin’s own fate takes a grim turn—his self-inflicted death sends him reborn in the Middle Ages, where he encounters her again, now bound by a timeless conflict neither can escape.

Arthur Matlin stumbles upon a mysterious sundial that grants him the power to glimpse just twelve hours ahead—just enough time to plan his next crime. With the enigmatic Chronos whispering from the shadows, he dances through the future, always one step ahead of justice. But when the clock runs out and the sundial is destroyed, Matlin is left stranded in a future he can no longer escape.

In "The Man Who Would Be Fate," a power-hungry man’s bid for global domination ends in a jail cell—until Fate offers him a terrifying chance to take control. For a fleeting moment, he wields the universe’s power, but his arrogance invites a swift and brutal reckoning. Fate, ever watchful, reclaims the reins with quiet finality.