Crypt of Horror #7

In "Cavern of the Doomed," Countess Aurora Karine’s descent into darkness begins when she trades her soul for power, ruling her country with a witch’s cunning. After her death, the ghosts of her victims rise to claim her, dragging her into the abyss she once feared.

In "The Totem!" from Crypt of Horror #7 (2009), Clark and his men stumble upon an Inuit man guarding a golden totem pole, a discovery that sets off a chilling chain of events. After stealing the artifact, they wake to find themselves shrunken and the totem vanished—only to repeat the same fate again and again as they near home. As each of Clark’s men deserts him, the true nature of the totem and its ancient guardians begins to reveal itself in ways no one could have foreseen.

In "The Ring of Horror," a man haunted by his own obsession with the occult finds himself trapped in a cycle of death and return, driven by a cursed bond that refuses to let him go. As his wife struggles to escape the relentless pull of his undead presence, the line between devotion and dread blurs in this chilling tale from Crypt of Horror #7.

In "Death of a Doll!" from Crypt of Horror #7, Harold Honeywell—small in stature but wealthy beyond measure—finds himself alone when the women around him reveal their true motives. Fleeing the law after a string of violent acts, he takes refuge in a circus gorilla’s cage, unaware that the beast, mourning the loss of its beloved doll, has already chosen its next plaything.

On Walpurgis Night, when shadows stir and the veil thins, Jo, a clockmaker’s assistant burdened by his master’s cruelty, finds himself at a crossroads—between obedience and vengeance, between fear and freedom. With the night’s dark magic loose in the city, he must decide whether to embrace the chaos or be consumed by it.

In "Voodoo Dolls," a wife grapples with her husband’s disturbing descent into the black arts, culminating in the horrifying deaths of her father and their family dog—both seemingly orchestrated through sinister dolls. As she uncovers the truth, she must confront the chilling reality of his rituals and decide how far she’ll go to reclaim her life.

In "The Last of Mr. Mordeaux," a man travels to the old country in search of proof of his noble lineage, only to uncover a grim truth beneath the ruins of his family's castle—where the last of his alleged sorcerous ancestors have been driven into the dark warrens below, twisted by time and the wrath of the peasants who once served them.