Fantastic Fears #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains multiple horror tales. "The Deadly Wish" features Horror Runs Amuck encountering ghosts at a centuries-old Rhine castle, where he learns that the spirits of a maiden's victims haunt the location; a man named Matterman then attempts to acquire the castle for his torture museum, but the vengeful ghosts thwart his plans. Another story involves a couple discovering that an old girl who previously hung herself in their house is still present as a malevolent spirit, with the corpse of an old crone named Tabitha rising from the basement to possess the body of a young woman named Alicia Morrison for sinister purposes.
In "If a Body Kill a Body," two Scottish highlanders from warring families defy tradition with a forbidden love, only to be slain by their own fathers. Now bound as ghosts, they rise to settle the score—though the price of vengeance may be more than either of them ever imagined.
In "Deadly Wish," Wilbur Cox—no stranger to being overlooked—finds himself granted unimaginable power by The Devil, who never tells him the cost. With a series of reckless wishes, Wilbur gets the car, the money, and even the wife he’s always dreamed of: Joyce. But when the life he wanted turns sour, his desperate final wish becomes his undoing.
In "Secret Coffin," Lord of Mader’s cursed legacy resurfaces when his descendant, Ben Matterman, takes up residence in Mader Castle to display his macabre torture museum. After a workman dies in a suspicious accident, Matterman eliminates the sole witness—only to be haunted by the vengeful spirits of his ancestor’s victims. As the castle trembles with unseen fury, the Iron Maiden claims its final prisoner.
In "Broom for a Witch," Dan and his wife Alicia arrive at his family’s eerie estate in Salem, built by the witch ancestor Tabitha Morrison—whose spirit stirs the moment Alicia falls asleep. When Alicia begins acting with sinister intent, even flying on a broom, Dan turns to Dr. Sykes for help, leading to a desperate attempt to end the haunting. But as the flames consume the house, a surprising twist rekindles hope in the aftermath.
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↩ Reprints Horrific #1 (1952)
Reprinted in Midnight #5 (1958), Weird #1 [5] (1968), Tales from the Tomb #6 (1969), Witches Tales #7 (1969), Weird #2 (1970), Terror Tales #6 (1970), Strange Galaxy #10 (1971), Witches Tales #3 (1972), Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Ghosts #[nn] (2019)
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