The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #25

On Halloween night, Jim and a group of friends laugh off old tales of demons and ghouls as they throw a party—until the lights go out and a witchlike creature of darkness emerges from the smoke. With a chilling command, it puts them under a trance and sends them on a fiendish scavenger hunt through the darkened streets.

When a new boy claims his father is a vampire, the town’s unease grows—especially for Miss Albright, the school’s longtime teacher. Her investigation leads her to the boy’s father, a man who is indeed a vampire, but not the monster she’s been hunting all along.

In "Trick or Treat," a couple's decision to spice up their Halloween party with eerie costumes from a mysterious shop leads to a chilling transformation they never saw coming. The moment they don the werewolf and vampire outfits, the masks seem to take hold—turning their playful night into a deadly duel.

In the files of the Paris police there can be found a case history of a crime that occurred over thirty years ago—when a man dressed as a devil at a Hallowe'en party killed his ex-girlfriend, only to die moments later as his costume fused to his skin.

When Flo Blain lashes out in jealousy at a gypsy woman named Vilma flirting with her fiancé Steve at a Halloween party, her angry wish comes terrifyingly true—Vilma transforms into a vampire-cat creature bound by a deadly curse: she must drink blood every 24 hours, or she’ll be permanently turned into a cat. Now caught in a tense, supernatural standoff, Flo must confront the consequences of her words as the line between predator and prey blurs.

In "The Dead Dance on Halloween," Lona Thornton’s obsession with a man already promised to another leads her to a witch’s cottage on the cusp of Halloween. After drinking a love potion that twists her beloved into a monstrous form, Lona flees into the woods—only to find herself bound to a cursed fate when the witch demands payment she can’t give. Now, on the night of the dead, Lona is doomed to dance among the restless, forever caught in a haunting ritual she never saw coming.

In a delightfully spooky twist on the haunted house trope, a nervous ghost and a Death-attired Charlie seek guidance from the elegantly chilling Emily Ghost as they prepare to haunt an old mansion. When a werewolf unexpectedly interrupts their lesson, the tension spikes—only to be undercut by the arrival of two newlyweds fleeing a storm, who mistake the monsters for their long-lost parents.

John Harvin’s eerie rental house holds a chilling promise: the ghost of Van Mort is said to appear on the night of the full moon. When three city friends arrive for a prank, their laughter turns to dread as the house itself seems to awaken — and something long buried stirs in the dark.

In "Cry from the Coffin," a nameless man wakes to a waking nightmare: trapped inside his own body after a fall, he lies helpless as his unfaithful wife identifies his lifeless form, endures the cold precision of an autopsy, and hears his own funeral eulogy—each moment a fresh torment.

In "Death Song!", a gifted violinist's ambition turns deadly when he eliminates his rival in a fit of jealousy, only to find himself tormented by the ghost of the man he killed. As the music he once loved becomes a haunting echo of his guilt, Marleau must confront the chilling truth that some debts are never paid in life.

In "The Doom of the Lucky Devil," gangster Lucky Daniels is given a chance to turn his life around—though he’s quick to reject it. Drawn to a forgotten mining town by the promise of gold, he stumbles upon more than riches: the restless spirits of long-dead miners. As the ground gives way beneath him, Lucky faces a fate as inevitable as the greed that led him there.

In the fog-drenched Misty Moors, newspaperman Dick Groom investigates "Witchery Week" for a sensational story—only to find the Duncan family unraveling one by one under a chilling curse tied to a long-dead moor witch. With the last survivor, the haunted Dora, left alive for a reason that chills more than the autumn air, the line between legend and nightmare begins to blur.

In "Touch of Death," the cursed witch Mudga struggles to live in isolation, her mere touch fatal to all who come near—yet the townsfolk of the nearby settlement can't seem to let her be. As fear and curiosity draw Mr. Benton, Tommy Wentworth, and others into her secluded world, the line between survival and obsession begins to blur.

In a remote Alpine village, the Snow Maiden—once a creature of frost and legend—falls for a kind-hearted villager, only to be destroyed in an avalanche summoned by her vengeful creator, the Ice King. Decades later, sculptor Gil discovers her frozen heart in the ruins and breathes new life into her with a body of ice. Now hunted across the world by the Ice King, who has followed her to America, the Snow Maiden must face a terrifying reckoning—while Gil, her unlikely guardian, stands between her and the storm of ice that seeks to erase her forever.

In "The Eyes of March!", Nicholas March’s unnerving gaze becomes a weapon of vengeance when his estranged wife Laura Duncan leaves him for the young Johnny Franklin. As the line between obsession and possession blurs, Johnny’s desperate act of retribution unleashes a curse that lingers beyond death—leaving him haunted by the very eyes he sought to destroy.

In the mist-laden bogs of Northern England, a young woman and her partner stumble upon an ancient witch whose dark spell threatens to steal her identity. As the line between reality and enchantment blurs, the woman must confront the eerie forces that seek to replace her—before she loses herself entirely.

In "Terror in Chinatown," collector August Lamont becomes obsessed with acquiring a forbidden Chinese "book of the dead," willing to kill to possess it. As he opens the ancient tome, he’s tormented by visions of unspeakable crimes—each one drawing him closer to a horrifying truth about his own fate.

In "The Murder Pool," James Gorse indulges his twisted obsession by turning his backyard pool into a death trap of red acid, where he watches his enemies dissolve into skeletons with cold glee. When his wife finally snaps and shoots him, his body tumbles into the very pool he built to kill others—leaving her to face the consequences of her act in the chilling aftermath.

In "Night Air," a young doctor tends to Mara, a patient whose chilling fear of vampires drives her to keep her home sealed tight after dark. When the doctor, skeptical but curious, finally opens a window one night, he’s met with a horror that defies reason—something ancient and hungry stirs in the silence between the stars.

Patrolman Dave Whitley’s routine takes a dark turn when he’s reassigned to Department G, a shadowy unit sworn to protect the city’s subway tunnels from a grotesque, man-eating menace lurking beneath the tracks. As he plunges into the claustrophobic depths of the underground, every flicker of light and distant echo feels like a threat waiting to strike.

In the humid heart of a Louisiana plantation, a lone man stumbles upon a voodoo queen and her relentless horde of the dead. As shadows lengthen and secrets rise from the earth, his undead brother’s desperate warning echoes through the night—too late to escape the ritual’s final, chilling reckoning.