Tales from the Crypt #33
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Lower Berth!", a young prince grapples with grief when his beloved nanny appears lifeless at her funeral, only to discover she’s merely in a cataleptic trance. Written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, with moody, expressive art by Jack Kamen and inks by the same, this chilling tale from EC’s Tales from the Crypt #33 (1952) turns a somber ceremony into a darkly ironic twist on innocence and loss. The cover, a striking, macabre illustration by Jack Davis, perfectly captures the story’s unsettling tone.
In a remote Indian village, a traveling magician and his wife are drawn to a mysterious young girl who performs a strange trick with a rope that defies gravity. When they attempt to steal her enchanted rope, they unleash a deadly consequence they never anticipated — a rope that seems to have a will of its own. The Vault-Keeper warns: some tricks aren’t meant to be copied.
In this chilling tale from Tales from the Crypt #33, the Crypt-Keeper spins a dark fable of a young prince and his beloved nanny, whose sudden death sends the boy into grief—only to discover she’s not truly gone. When the funeral is called off, the boy’s sorrow turns to something far more unsettling, as he grapples with a truth too strange to believe.
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Reprinted in Tales from the Crypt #33 (1953), Tales from the Crypt #3 (1979), Les Meilleures Histoires de... #[1] (1983), EC Classics #1 (1985), Iskalde Grøss #2/1989 (1989), Iskalde Grøss #1/1990 (1990), Tales from the Crypt #1 (1990), Iskalde Grøss #8/1990 (1990), Iskalde Grøss #8/1991 (1991), Iskalde Grøss #3/1992 (1992), Skræk #5 (1994), Tales from the Crypt #17 (1996), Nemi #2 (2003), Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Clásicos del Terror de EC #3 (2003), Tales from the Crypt: Graphic Novel #7 (2009), Jack Davis's Tales from the Crypt #[nn] (2012), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #4 (2013), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #7 (2014), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics #[nn] (2019), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #30 (2021), Tales from the Crypt #3 (2022), The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt #3 (2024), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #36 (2024), Artisan Edition #[16] (2024)
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