Haunt of Fear #21
In "An Off-Color Heir," writer Al Feldstein and artist Graham Ingels deliver a chilling tale of obsession and inherited dread, set in a Louisiana plantation where a bride’s dreams of artistry unravel into a nightmare of secrets. When Laura stumbles upon a bottle of black ink and a locked room holding seven lifeless women, her husband’s blue beard and a razor in his hand reveal a horror far darker than the portrait that once haunted her. Cover by Graham Ingels captures the story’s eerie elegance, a 1997 gem from Gemstone with a haunting blend of dread and artistry.
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Laura dreamed of being a famous painter, and years back her husband-to-be came by her studio to have his portrait painted. They fell in love, married, and moved to his planation home in Louisiana. In that home hung a portrait of her husband's French Baron relation, which haunted her, as did a room in the home that wouldn't open. Now, years later, she discovered a bottle of black ink in the bathroom for her husband's new beard, and when she was able to get the mystery door opened she found seven dead women lying there, and her husband, now with a blue beard and a razor in his hand...
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