Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC #3

In the shadowed silence of a cramped closet, a young boy named Artie finds himself locked away by his cruel step-father, Samuel Bricker. There, he meets Hozir, a mysterious presence who claims to live in the dark and offers a chilling plan to teach Bricker a lesson—though not all of Hozir’s ideas are ones Artie can accept.

¡Una jugada repugnante! follows a man who abandons a young woman and then tries to flee the consequences by enlisting a boat pilot with a painful past. When the pilot delivers him to a remote island, the man realizes too late that the place is not just isolated—it’s a refuge for the forsaken, and his own sins may have brought him exactly where he was meant to go.

In "¡Enterrada en vida!", a woman haunted by a childhood trauma of being trapped in a cave-in is pushed to the edge when her husband, obsessed with tormenting her, threatens to bury her alive—then carries out the threat with brutal finality. After being airlifted to the hospital in a pine box, she awakens to the suffocating darkness of her own mind, where the line between terror and reality has long since vanished.

¡Absorbido por las arañas! delivers a chilling descent into paranoia and retribution, where a guilty banker’s obsession with spiders turns deadly. After luring his blackmailing teller into a night of dread, he flees to the swamp in a failing plane—only to fall into the grasp of a monstrous arachnid that has no intention of letting go.

In "¡Una mina... de gas!", a California gold miner lies dying after being shot by a rival claiming his land. When he awakens—though he knows he’s dead—he watches in horror as the killer, a burly man with a bloody knife, tries to bury him. But no matter how hard he tries, the claim jumper can’t seem to lay the dead man to rest, and the consequences of that failure begin to unfold in ways neither man could have foreseen.

In "¡Un final de Hollywood!", a Hollywood producer’s dream of stardom takes a chilling turn when he discovers a striking American woman living among an Eskimo settlement. Drawn to her beauty and mystery, he smuggles her back to the States, eager to launch her career—until her step-father tracks them down with a revelation that unsettles everything he thought he knew.

In "¡La carbonera!", young Toby is haunted by a voice in his head that drives him to misbehave—each time, his aunt punishes him. When a new voice emerges from the coal chute in the cellar, claiming to be her trapped inside, Toby hesitates: yesterday, the voice sounded like his mother. He doesn’t believe it, and as the cellar fills with a sudden, crushing load of coal, the truth behind the voice begins to unravel.

In "Supervivencia... ¡o muerte!", two men aboard a cargo ship pass the time by building a macabre trap to pit rats against each other in a brutal test of survival—watching as they fight for a floating platform in a barrel of water, betting on who will make it out alive. When the ship sinks, the same ruthless instinct takes over, revealing how little separates the line between man and beast.

In the isolated Glades, a grieving father retreats into solitude after the death of his wife and the birth of a deformed son with stunted legs. When a series of brutal killings terrorizes the region, the sheriff confronts the man in his cabin, only to retreat when faced with a gun. Later, wounded and broken, the father confesses to the sheriff that his son may be the one responsible.

In "¡La kalamidad de Kamen!", a young artist is pushed to embrace the darker side of horror after being told his work is too sweet. Inspired by the grim visions of his peers—each depicted in macabre art—his resolve hardens, leading him into a feverish dream under the full moon where he enacts a chilling act of violence before returning to his family. When his wife shrieks in terror at a mouse, the line between nightmare and reality blurs.

In 1667 Germany, a cruel Duke rules with greed and cruelty, forcing starving peasants to pay for the blood of a child he ran down—blood that stained his carriage. When Johann, desperate to save his family, devises a plan to steal the Duke’s jewels to pay the unjust tax, his friend Emile volunteers to help, only to be captured and punished with the severing of his hands. Now, with vengeance in his heart, Johann prepares a trap that will turn the Duke’s own cruelty against him.

In the shadow of wartime scarcity, a butcher's desperate choices begin to unravel as he trades on privilege and deception, serving up more than just meat. When tragedy strikes and his son dies from a meal meant to be a family staple, the weight of his lies turns deadly in the quiet of his shop. A wife’s grief ignites a chilling transformation, turning the butcher’s own trade into a grim final act.

In the remote Andes, three construction partners flee after a hospital collapse kills twenty-one people, framing their fourth partner. As they fly through a mountain pass at night, their small plane is caught in a vast, unseen web—only to awaken at dawn and find themselves trapped in a nightmare of silk and silence, suspended high above the earth.

In "¡Cortar las cartas!", two bitter professional gamblers settle their feud with a game of chop poker—a deadly twist on strip poker where each loss means losing a limb. With their doctors standing by as seconds, the stakes escalate beyond clothing, pushing both men to the edge of agony and desperation.

In "¡Un espectáculo aplastante!", a circus elephant trainer’s deadly act takes a dark turn when his obsession with a new lover leads him to orchestrate a gruesome murder during a performance. After faking the death of his wife-assistant by having the elephant crush her, he marries his mistress and begins a new act with a different elephant. A year later, returning to the same town, he and his new wife are haunted by the return of the dead woman and the beast—both risen from the grave, seeking justice.

In the dusty heat of India, a traveling magician and his wife are drawn to a mysterious girl whose enchanted rope defies gravity, dancing in the air as she plays a haunting melody. When she refuses to sell it, the couple devises a cruel plan to steal the rope, luring her to their hotel room with false kindness. But once the deed is done, the rope begins to move on its own—alive, vengeful, and far more dangerous than they ever imagined.

In this chilling tale from *Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC #3*, a young prince is devastated when his beloved nanny appears dead at her funeral. The king tries to comfort him with sweets and gifts, but the boy, distracted by the thought of lost treats and toys, grows uneasy when he sees her stir beneath the veil. As the funeral proceeds, he grapples with a dark, unsettling realization — one that lingers long after the final candle is snuffed.

In "¡Corazón solitario!", a man whose dark past is built on marrying and killing wealthy women for profit receives a lonely-hearts letter from a mysterious woman who lives in a large stone house. Intrigued by her photograph of a strikingly beautiful woman—dated two years prior—he sees a chance to leave his criminal life behind and settle down. When she accepts his proposal, he rushes to meet her, unaware of the chilling truth waiting in the shadows of her estate.

In "¡Espejito, espejito!", a man recounts the chilling moment he awakened inside a grotesque, artificial body stitched together from stolen parts—his mind now trapped in a monstrous form. Lost in a carnival’s endless hall of mirrors, he stumbles through shifting reflections, each one revealing a more twisted version of himself, until the sight becomes unbearable.

In the dusty heart of a quiet town, two con artists scheme to sell fake oil rights—until one fakes his death and is buried, hiding the stolen money beneath the soil. When his partner digs him up to retrieve the cash, a single careless cigarette sparks a shocking explosion, revealing the cemetery’s buried secret: real oil, waiting to ignite.

In the darkly whimsical tale "¡Impuesto sobre el horror!", King Moneymad's insatiable hunger for wealth drives him to tax every aspect of his subjects' lives—until even their thumbs are not safe. As the people's suffering reaches a breaking point, their quiet desperation ignites a rebellion that turns the king's cruelty against him in a shocking, visceral act of retribution.