Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC #2

In "¡Reflejo mortal!", Al wakes after a crash on a desolate road, disoriented and bloodied, only to be met with terror by everyone he encounters—each reacting with horror at his appearance. As he flees from one frightened stranger to the next, seeking help in a town that seems to reject him, he stumbles upon a house that’s been abandoned, then a friend whose face is horribly missing. When he finally confronts his own reflection, he sees a corpse staring back—only to wake, drenched in sweat, convinced it was all a nightmare. But the headlights are coming again, and the crash is real this time.

In "¡El último respeto!", a grieving man haunted by love and loss takes a desperate, dark vow to honor his late wife in the most unsettling way possible. After her death, he becomes trapped in her mausoleum with only a carnival prize for company, surviving on rainwater and the chilling presence of her corpse—until the silence itself begins to consume him.

In "¡Sesión de espiritismo!", Alan Bitsby challenges a medium to summon the spirit of his supposedly deceased wife, determined to expose him as a fraud. As the seance unfolds and the medium enters a trance, the spirit of Bitsby’s wife appears—leaving him stunned, not by the supernatural, but by the chilling reality that she was never dead at all. When he returns home to find her lifeless, the line between deception and dread blurs into something far more unsettling.

In "¡Muerte vudú!", two friends, Jay and Bill, stumble upon a forbidden voodoo ritual in Haiti, setting off a chain of chilling events that follow them home. After escaping the island, Bill receives a mysterious package containing a voodoo doll with a pin—only to find it come alive and attack him in his own home. As the horror unfolds, secrets buried in the past rise to the surface, and the line between friend and foe blurs in a deadly game of vengeance and fate.

In "¡Oído de murciélago!", a struggling actor desperate to regain his hearing seeks out a mysterious healer recommended by a friend. After agreeing to an experimental procedure involving the sensory organs of a bat, he gains unnerving hearing acuity—along with unsettling changes that blur the line between man and creature. As his senses sharpen, so too do the fears he can no longer ignore.

In "¡La muerte viviente!", a tragic love triangle unfolds between two doctors and a woman whose heart tumor leads to a fateful surgery. After her death, one of the doctors, Dr. Manning, is saved from a fatal brain tumor by his rival, Dr. Jerome—only to be resurrected in a horrifying state, kept preserved by a post-hypnotic suggestion. Now, he exists as a living corpse, frozen in time until he hears the word "Laurie," the name of the woman he once loved. When that word is spoken, his body will collapse into a grotesque, decaying ruin.

In "¡Tentempié de medianoche!", a young man named Duncan Reynolds finds himself trapped in a surreal night of hunger and dread, lured by a grotesque restaurant serving unnatural food and drawn to a cemetery where he digs up a corpse—only to wake with it in his arms, convinced it was all a dream. But when hunger strikes again, he opens his refrigerator, and the nightmare begins anew.

In "¡Susto de muerte!", a man marries a woman solely to inherit her uncle’s fortune, but growing impatient, he drags her into a plan to murder the uncle. As guilt shadows her and his patience wears thin, he schemes to eliminate her too—only for Uncle Alex to have a surprise of his own.

In "¡Judy, estás muy cambiada!", a man’s young wife vanishes, only to return with a chilling transformation—her face now that of an old crone. As the husband struggles to unravel the truth behind her change, he finds himself trapped in a twisted game of identity and deception, where every familiar gesture hides a dangerous secret.

In the eerie halls of a wax museum, Henri and Marie preside over a collection of lifelike figures, but Marie begins to hear their silent screams—claiming the statues are tormented by their own grim poses. When she reconfigures the chamber of horrors into a festive scene, Henri’s rage ignites, leading to a violent act that turns her own grief into a chilling final display. The wax figures, long silent, now exact a terrible, eternal justice.

In "¡Dibujo vudú!", a disillusioned artist in Haiti, betrayed by those in the art world, turns to voodoo for retribution. With a newfound power to create living portraits that mirror the fate of their subjects, he begins to paint his enemies—only to discover too late that his own likeness is among them, now a dangerous target he must protect at all costs.

In "¡El cuerpo prestado!", a woman and her lover conspire to kill her husband, but their plan unravels when the husband escapes and the lover is struck by a car. As the lover lies dying in the hospital, the husband returns to confront his wife, only to find her ready to finish what they started. At the moment she strikes him with a poker, the lover’s soul transfers into the husband’s body—and the husband, now inhabiting his killer’s form, steps out of the hospital to face her once more.

In "La tumba india," Roy Madison dismisses the warnings of landowner Hiram Becker as mere superstition when he purchases a farm with an Indian burial mound at its center. Determined to build a flight school, Roy drives his bulldozer into the mound, unearthing skulls before the machine suddenly fails and rain begins to fall. That night, after hearing eerie drums, Roy opens his door—only to scream in terror. The next morning, Hiram discovers Roy’s lifeless body, scalped.

In "¡Naufragio político!", a political rival's desperate scheme to seize power backfires in a chilling twist of fate. After poisoning the sitting mayor and leaving a forged suicide note to tarnish his legacy, the truth remains hidden—until the new mayor, victorious and vengeful, orders the exhumation of the dead man’s body and casts it into the sea. But the past has a way of rising again, and when the new mayor finds himself adrift in a rowboat during a sudden storm, something from the depths reaches up to claim him.

In "¡Al rojo vivo!", two American producers obsessed with bringing Parisian Grand Guignol horror to Broadway resort to murder when their pitch is rejected—only to find their own staged bloodshed turns terrifyingly real when the victim returns from the dead, turning their theatrical revenge into a deadly performance they never scripted.

In "Madam Barbazul," a mother's twisted devotion to her late mother's memory drives her to a chilling ritual: each year, she kills a husband, framing each death as an accident, and preserves them as trophies. When her seventh victim survives the crash she orchestrates, she must finish the job herself—only to find that her collection has a mind of its own. As the wind whispers through the cemetery, the buried men stir, and the cycle of vengeance begins anew.

In the bloody shadow of the French Revolution, a nobleman’s betrayal sets a chilling chain in motion. After betraying a fellow aristocrat to save himself, he dismisses a servant’s eerie demonstration of a headless chicken as mere fearmongering—until that same servant returns in the dead of night, leading the headless body of his former master to claim justice.

In "¡Oferta mortal!", two desperate medical students turn to grave robbing to secure a corpse for their anatomy exam, only to stumble upon a corpse that’s far from dead—its stillness the result of a deadly con. As they dig into the secrets of a man faking his own death to claim a life insurance payout, they find themselves caught in a web of betrayal where the line between life and death is as fragile as a lie.

In "¡Un largo trance!", a man's obsession with hypnosis spirals into a deadly game of control and betrayal. After commanding his wife to stop her heart in a trance, he later conspires with a new lover to kill her permanently—using the phrase "wake up" to ensure she never returns. A year later, he brings his lover to the grave for show, only for guilt to trigger a shocking reversal: the buried wife rises, and with a single command, turns the tables on both of them.

In "Una historia sentimental," an elderly man, dismissed from his job due to age, returns to Haiti seeking retribution against his former boss. With the help of a voodoo practitioner, he acquires a mysterious tree that grows in reverse, destined to undo his enemy’s life in kind. As the tree shrivels to an acorn, the boss begins to age backward—his fate mirroring the tree’s strange, unnatural decay.