The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt #4
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.
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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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