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Cover: Jack Davis

The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt #4

Sep 2024 · Dark Horse · 19.99 USD; 25.99 CAD
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“By the Fright of the Silvery Moon!”
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This hardcover volume collects issues #40–#46 of the original EC Comics series, featuring the classic horror tales that defined the genre. Includes stories by Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, and other EC stalwarts, with the signature twist endings and gruesome artwork that made Tales from the Crypt a legend.

In "By the Fright of the Silvery Moon!", a skeptical traveler visits his sister in a town gripped by fear after seventeen mysterious deaths attributed to vampires—though he dismisses the idea as superstition. Hungry and wandering after dark, he stumbles upon the very restaurant that had closed earlier, now mysteriously open, unaware that its true clientele has only just begun to arrive. Written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, with art by Joe Orlando and colors by Marie Severin, this chilling tale from The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt #4 features a cover by Jack Davis that captures the story’s eerie, moonlit dread.

writer Bill Gaines · writer Al Feldstein · artist, inker Joe Orlando · colorist Marie Severin · letterer Jim Wroten · cover Jack Davis

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artist, inker Joe Orlando
colorist Marie Severin
letterer Jim Wroten
cover pencils, inks Jack Davis

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A man visits his sister in a small town where people get off the street and close up shop before sundown due to a recent spate of seventeen vampire killings, but scoffs at the idea as the work of a homicidal maniac as vampires don't exist. He is hungry since the restaurant he was in earlier closed down before he could order something to eat and so he goes for a walk after dinner. He comes upon the same restaurant that he was in earlier and it is open now. He enters the place to get something to eat, but ends up on the menu himself, for it serves as an after-hours eatery to the local vampires.

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