Crypt of Horror #32
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Gallows in the Sky" delivers a chilling twist on urban legend, where a building manager’s routine day spirals into a nightmare when a ghoul demands a month’s rent for the elusive 13th floor—only accessible when the dead are present. Written by Paul S. Newman and brought to life with moody precision by Dick Ayers, whose art and inking define the eerie atmosphere, this issue turns the familiar mechanics of an elevator into a portal between worlds. The cover by Dick Ayers perfectly captures the dread of that suspended moment, just before the doors close.
In "Gallows in the Sky," a landowner’s cruel act sets off a chilling chain of events when a displaced family curses him and his bloodline. Soon, Sir Edward begins seeing a blazing gallows in the sky—visible only to him—drawing him into a nightmare he can’t escape.
In "The Gallows Bird," three years after a fatal air transport crash, the ghost of pilot Jim Carmody leads his surviving co-pilot Andy and his fiancée Dolly on a haunting journey to the Black Pit, twelve miles north of Grenau—where the wreckage of their past still waits.
In "The House!" from Crypt of Horror #32, the Morgans settle into a new home only to discover their butler, Bates, has vowed to kill anyone who lives there. As Arnold Morgan tries to exorcise the malevolent spirits haunting the house, he stumbles into a danger far more personal than the ghosts themselves.
In "The Hangman's Noose," a desperate rope seller tries to cover up a murder by staging a suicide with a flimsy noose, only to face his seemingly dead partner—alive and unharmed—when the police arrive. The tension builds as the man’s alibi unravels, and the cheap rope becomes the unexpected key to a chilling truth.
In "The Giant Killer," four mutant giants rise from the shadows after an atomic test awakens the very creatures they were meant to destroy. Though they carry the grim knowledge that radiation will soon kill all humans, they're hunted down before they can share the truth.
In "The 13th Floor," a skeptical building manager is confronted by a ghoul seeking to rent a floor that doesn’t exist—until the creature insists, threatening violence if refused. Drawn by the promise of a mysterious, unseen space that only reveals itself when the ghoul’s associates enter the elevator, the manager becomes obsessed with leasing it, unaware the floor exists only in the liminal space between the 12th and 14th. As the elevator doors close, his body is caught in the in-between, suspended in a place that defies the rules of the world.
In "Partners!", two gold prospectors strike fortune in the frozen wilds of northern Canada—only for greed to turn one against the other. When betrayal leads to murder, the killer finds himself haunted by the ghost of his former partner, a presence that grows more relentless with every freezing night.
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