The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #5

In "Black Magic in a Slinky Gown," a haunting tale from The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #5, Leonore Black walks the line between elegance and terror—her beauty masking a deadly secret. When men who harm spiders cross her path, she answers with vengeance in the form of a monstrous transformation, turning predator against predator.

Ira Krim can’t look away from a skull-shaped pipe in a curio shop, drawn to it despite the shopkeeper’s eerie warnings. As he takes possession of the artifact, the air grows thick with unease—something ancient and hungry stirs in the smoke it produces. When Madame Grazza and Arleen cross paths with Ira, the line between curiosity and doom begins to blur.

In "A Death for a Death," Dr. Ansel Jarrat, a naturalist who once dismissed the suffering of insects, finds himself haunted by a terrifying transformation—each night he awakens as a different creature, from caterpillar to cockroach. As the line between man and insect blurs, he must confront the consequences of his past cruelty before the curse consumes him completely.

On Friday the 13th, Sam and Grace Allison check into a hotel that feels too quiet, too still—until they’re led to room 1313 on the 13th floor. What starts as a strange coincidence quickly turns unnerving as they realize they’re not alone: the room is hosting an annual gathering of those who died there years before.

Ivan Buloff’s reign of terror is built on an army of flying severed hands, summoned through dark experiments and black magic, with the German government itself held hostage. But when the sister of one of his victims begins to unravel his web, her courage becomes the first crack in his monstrous empire.

Bill and his wife Betty settle into her family’s isolated estate in the New England countryside, where the enigmatic housekeeper Clara watches over the old house with quiet intensity. As a string of brutal killings shakes the nearby town, Betty uncovers a dark secret tied to her grandfather’s past—and a bloodline that may be more cursed than she ever imagined. With the werewolf’s shadow closing in, the truth behind Clara’s ageless presence and the family’s legacy begins to unravel.

In "Heartline," brilliant surgeon Lawrence Romaine is undone by love when the woman he adores, Susanne, dies suddenly. Driven by grief and his own radical science, he gives her a second chance—using a cadaver’s heart to revive her. But the Susanne who returns is changed, her affections drawn not to the man who loved her, but to the body she now shares. The story lingers in the quiet horror of devotion that outlives death, where the heart remembers more than the mind.

Jeb Daws, a man fighting to restore honesty in his town’s politics, is framed for murder by the very corrupt officials he sought to unseat. After a rigged trial ends in a death sentence, he’s hanged at dawn—only to vanish from his gallows, leaving behind a ghost that haunts the streets at night. As fear spreads through the town, those who betrayed him begin to wonder if justice, or something far darker, has come calling.

In "The Thing in the Pool," Ann Winsor and George Winsor find themselves drawn into a twisted game of desire and retribution when they accept a lavish gift from Sebastian Corday, the reclusive architect who once loved Ann. What begins as a dream come true—luxury, romance, and a stunning new home—unravels as the hidden horror beneath the mansion’s pristine swimming pool stirs to life.

Corker, a determined boy with little to lose, enters a high-stakes marble tournament to ease his mother’s burdens—only his prized marbles are the eerie, glass eyes of their cruel landlord, Mr. Ebber. As the game unfolds, the weight of those eyes seems to follow every move, whispering secrets from a past he never knew.

Marion Banks washes ashore after a shipwreck, rescued by a mysterious sea creature that gifts her a strange necklace. She builds a raft and sets out to sea, but the necklace’s seaweed begins to shrink in the sun, trapping her in a desperate final struggle. When her body is found and cast back into the waves, the creature returns — not to claim her, but to reclaim what was given.

In the quiet woods near the old Norris cabin, disappearances have the town on edge. Martha and Henry Norris, the town’s beloved elderly couple, seem too kind to be involved—but Sheriff Lem Drew isn’t so sure. As suspicion grows and shadows deepen, one man’s curiosity might be the only thing standing between the truth and a secret buried in the trees.

In "Formula for Death," a desperate scientist pushes the boundaries of life and death, unleashing a horrifying experiment that brings the dead back to life in twisted, monstrous forms. When his test on a rat succeeds, he makes a chilling decision to use his assistant as the next subject—only to find that some experiments should never be completed.

In "Amnesia!", a man struck by lightning while wandering a cemetery awakens with no memory—only to stumble into a haunted house where spectral figures stir. As shadows whisper secrets and the past returns in fragments, he begins to recall a truth too terrible to name: he is the devil.