The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #27
"House of Horror" from The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #27 delivers a chilling, dreamlike tale written by Ivan Klapper and illustrated with masterful precision by Harvey Kurtzman, whose inks and lettering by Jim Wroten heighten the story’s eerie tension. Set at the Hawkin's Tourist Colony, the tale follows Tom, haunted by a vivid nightmare about a couple whose unsettling visit ends in tragedy—only to find the same pair arriving in real life, just as he’d dreamed. The cover, also by Kurtzman, captures the story’s unsettling mood with its stark, haunting imagery.
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At the Hawkin's Tourist Colony, Tom is hitting the bottle as his friend Jim walks in, and explains that he is doing so because of a terrible dream he had the night before. In it, a couple come in to take a room for the night....but the woman appeared to be very strange. As it turns out, the woman believes that death is stalking her at every turn, and kills a cat, believing it was death coming for her. Her husband locks her in the room, but that night she attempts to escape, they get into a fight and he kills her, then shoots himself to death! After hearing the story, Jim tells Tom it was just a nightmare and not to pay any attention to it, and leaves. A few moments later, a car pulls up and the same couple Tom had seen in his dream were standing before him wanting a room!
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