Crypt of Horror #28

Dr. Death hosts a chilling tale of a photographer driven by obsession, venturing into the forbidden City of the Dead beneath a desert sky. Pushing past mortal limits, he poisons himself in a desperate bid to capture the uncanny — only to find the realm of the dead has claimed him far too soon.

In the shadow of a spreading plague, King George throws a lavish masquerade, shielding himself in revelry while his people succumb. When a masked figure arrives—unnervingly familiar, draped in crimson—the ball takes a chilling turn. The Jester, silent and watchful, seems to know more than he should.

In "What Happened to Doctor Dorrm," a young woman and her dog stumble upon a strange, abandoned research outpost near a remote African lake, where a forgotten scientist’s notes hint at a tragic experiment gone awry. The story unfolds through fragmented records and eerie discoveries, probing the fate of a man who tried to understand the secret of merfolk—only to witness their desperate, doomed journey beyond the lake’s boundaries.

When Flo Blain makes a furious wish that her fiancé Steve’s flirtatious guest, Vilma, would turn into a cat, she doesn’t expect it to come true—especially not in such a monstrous way. Now Vilma is a vampire-cat creature bound to feed on blood every day, or risk becoming a real cat forever. As the night unfolds, Flo must confront the consequences of her wish, and the line between punishment and peril begins to blur.

In "The Fat Man!", art painter Leo Main finds his tense standoff with landlady Mrs. Tyran spiraling into something far darker when he channels his fear into a portrait of her and a looming, enigmatic fat man. The painting doesn’t stay on the canvas—something in it begins to move, and the figure starts to take on a life of its own, blurring the line between nightmare and reality.

In "The Constant Eye," Justin Westrum believes he’s escaped justice after murdering his business partner Mack, but the man’s final curse—“I’ll keep an eye on you”—begins to manifest in ways that blur reality and madness. As paranoia takes hold, Westrum’s desperate attempts to hide his crime spiral into a nightmare of suspicion and unseen watchers, where every shadow feels alive.

When the Sea Goes Dry! follows a treasure-hunting couple drawn to a fabled sunken hoard of Spanish gold, lured by legends of an ancient Aztec curse. Their guide, Pedro—a quiet Aztec descendant with a mysterious past—leads them into the depths, where the sea begins to recede in eerie, unnatural silence. As the ocean floor is exposed, the true nature of the curse stirs beneath the waves.