Haunted Thrills #14
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Frigid Fear!" kicks off in Haunted Thrills #14 (1954) with a chilling twist on the undead: when reclusive Gabriel Green discovers the cursed Trumpet of Doom, his desperate attempts to blow it awaken a relentless army of zombies intent on purging the city of sinners. Robert Hayward Webb handles both pencils and inks for the eerie, atmospheric interior, while the Iger Shop delivers a striking cover that captures the story’s creeping dread.
In "Frigid Fear!", Wanda’s greed leads her to betray Hubert, a man whose wealth comes with a chilling secret. When Hubert discovers her treachery, he traps her in a vault where the cold is as merciless as his revenge—just like the others who came before.
In "Wheel of Terror," a masked figure in a satanic guise pulls off a daring bank heist, sending Inspector Curan and his son Marty on a tense investigation. As the trail leads deeper into deception, the truth reveals a chilling twist: the bank director is not who he seems, and his identical twin is behind the crime.
In "Trumpet of Doom," Jo, a quiet librarian, stumbles upon the cursed trumpet once wielded by the madman Gabriel Green. When she accidentally blows it, the dead rise not to destroy—but to purge the city of sin, one soul at a time. As the streets fill with the restless, a mysterious figure emerges, claiming to be the only one who can stop the reckoning.
In "Dying Is So Contagious," Professor Homer Kelsey—obsessed with the science of death—takes his macabre experiments to a chilling extreme, trapping criminals in his home to witness their slow demise. When the desperate duo Slugger and Myrtle break in, they become unwitting participants in his twisted study, only to find themselves trapped in a deadly game of survival.
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Reprinted in Strange Journey #1 (1957), Weird #10 (1966), Weird #2 (1967), Terror Tales #7 (1969), Tales of Voodoo #4 (1969), Terror Tales #2 (1970), Tales from the Tomb #5 (1970), Weird #6 (1971), Horror Tales #5 (1972), Terror Tales #1 (1974), Tales from the Tomb #3 (1974), Crypt of Horror #27 (2015), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #18 (2016), Gwandanaland Comics #159 (2017)
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