Il Guardiano della Cripta

Emerging from the shadowy pages of Edizioni B.S.D.'s I Classici Americani I Racconti del Terrore in 1991, Il Guardiano della Cripta is a creature of the Copper/Modern Age Italian comics scene, brought to life through the collaborative work of Ferruccio Alessandri and the legendary Jack Davis. This macabre host haunts the pages of a series steeped in terror, keeping eerie company with the likes of La Vecchia Strega and Il Custode del Sepolcro — a rogues' gallery of the ghoulish and the grotesque. With ten catalog appearances concentrated in that chilling anthology, Il Guardiano della Cripta is a fascinating artifact of horror comics culture as filtered through an Italian lens, well worth seeking out for any collector with a taste for the darkly atmospheric.