Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières #3
"La planète hantée" marks a standout moment in the eerie anthology Il Est Minuit... l'Heure des Sorcières #3 (1982), a 10,00 FRF comic written by George Kashdan and illustrated with haunting precision by Tenny Henson, whose inks and Mario Sen’s colors deepen the creeping dread. When a young girl spends her holidays with a foster family, her secret nocturnal rituals—summoning her demonic alter ego Hecubah—draw the suspicion of Mr. Carter, whose attempts to stop her only fuel her dark schemes. Cover by Luis Dominguez captures the chilling atmosphere, setting the stage for a tale where innocence and malevolence blur at the stroke of midnight.
In the eerie silence of space, a stranded expedition leader crash-lands on a planet shaped like a colossal manor, only to be attacked by his former crew—now mindless zombies under the command of the enigmatic Skorax. With time frozen at midnight and the air thick with witching-hour dread, he must team up with a young survivor named Owen to uncover a cure before the mysterious cosmic illness spreads to Earth.
In the quiet countryside, young Terri spends her summer with a foster family—by day a seemingly ordinary girl, but by night, she summons her devoted followers beneath the name Hecubah. Mr. Carter, ever watchful, tries to catch her in her dark rituals, but her clever tricks always foil his plans. As the clock strikes midnight, a chilling secret begins to unravel—right at the edge of a still, shadowed lake.
In the shadowed halls of a secret lab, an agent moves with precision—only to find himself face to face with the blind professor Werner, whose fragile grip on reality may be the real weapon. As the clock ticks toward midnight, a single flacon of gas becomes a deadly key, and the truth written in braille seals a fate written in silence.
In a quiet moment beneath a moonlit sky, Gina lingers by the dying fire as her husband Mark retreats to bed. When Mark awakens to a shadowy figure lunging at him, he strikes out with a piece of wood—only to find Gina’s lifeless body moments later, the blade now a chilling testament to her final, desperate act. A haunting tale of love, sacrifice, and the thin line between life and death, where the hour of the witches casts a long shadow.
In "Une chaîne inquiétante," Fred Remson and Tommy Fitch receive a mysterious letter promising fortune if they follow a chilling ritual: erase one name from a list of thirteen, add their own at the end, and mail out thirteen copies by midnight. At first, Fred’s greed is rewarded with sudden luck—until the price of that fortune begins to catch up with him in increasingly dangerous ways. When Tommy becomes a threat, Fred’s desperation leads to a fatal mistake, but the real danger lies in a single, hidden change made by Tommy’s son, who erased Fred’s name and restored his father’s.
In "La nourriture de la peur," hypochondriac millionaire Horace Harper becomes the unwitting host to a terrifying psychological game when two con artists exploit his obsession with cleanliness. Trapped in his own manor and driven to madness by hallucinogenic fear, Harper’s descent into paranoia takes a deadly turn—leaving Finch, the man who promised to cure him, forever trapped in the house’s shadowed halls.
In "Une étrange collection," Lord Ridley, a man obsessed with the absurdly theatrical methods of murder, displays his macabre trophies with pride—until his own arrogance becomes his downfall. When he frames the innocent Robby Quirt to preserve his flawless record, he unknowingly sets in motion a grim fate tied to the very relics he collects. At midnight, as the hour of witches strikes, a violent storm brings his collection crashing down, turning his trophies into instruments of retribution.
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