The EC Archives: Crime SuspenStories #1

This handsome Dark Horse archive volume collects the early issues of EC's Crime SuspenStories, gathering those tightly wound tales of urban dread into one essential edition. The cover sets the mood perfectly — a shadowy figure on a darkened city street, a hangman's noose coiling ominously in the foreground, and a caption that promises "An Illustrated Terror-Tale from the Haunt of Fear!" It's a faithful nod to EC's signature blend of noir atmosphere and moral unease, and with a foreword by Max Allan Collins, this 2024 collection arrives with both scholarly care and genuine affection for the source material.