Witches Tales #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Gruesome Nightmare" in Witches Tales #1 (1975) delivers a chilling tale of vengeance and forbidden power, where museum night guard Tillston stumbles upon a cursed parchment that awakens stone statues to do his bidding. With Oscar Fraga handling both pencils and inks, the story unfolds with eerie precision, as Tillston unleashes his statues to settle old scores—until detective Dorne steps in to stop him. Bill Alexander’s cover captures the dread with a haunting, gothic flair.
In "Gruesome Nightmare," a mad scientist-explorer—driven by obsession—uses a mysterious shrink serum on his niece and her husband, plunging them into a terrifying ordeal of scale and survival. With cunning and desperation, the couple outmaneuver their captor, turning his own experiments against him in a chilling twist of fate.
In "One Step Beyond," a twisted bond between two siamese twins takes a horrifying turn when one brother’s cruelty awakens a deadly retaliation in the other. As guilt and violence spiral, the line between brother and enemy blurs—until neither can escape the consequences of their shared flesh.
In "The Slimy Haunt," the restless spirit of Captain Balmoran rises from the sea to haunt the descendants of the family responsible for his shipwreck and the deaths of his crew. As the past returns in eerie waves, the living must face a vengeance that refuses to drown.
In "The Devil Statues," night guard Tillston stumbles upon a mysterious parchment that awakens the stone figures in the museum, granting him terrifying control over them. With the power to command the statues, he sets out to punish those who wronged him—especially the judge who condemned his brother—using the silent, monstrous enforcers as his instruments of vengeance. But when detective Dorne begins to unravel the mystery, the line between guardian and monster blurs.
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↩ Reprints Tales of Horror #4 (1953), Tomb of Terror #11 (1953), Tomb of Terror #12 (1953), Weird #2 (1971), Weird #1 (1973), Weird #7 (1973)
Reprinted in Road to Disaster #[nn] (1982), Vampires of Death #1
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