The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #17

In "Voodoo Vengeance!", Caleb’s search for a gift for his wife Sally takes a dark turn when a strange antique store owner draws his attention to a voodoo doll crafted in her likeness. After seeing Sally with her lover, Caleb confronts her in a moment of rage, and in the heat of the argument, she hurls the doll at him—only for it to shatter against the fireplace, its fragments swallowed by the flames. What happens next leaves Caleb frozen in terror as he turns to face Sally, his expression unreadable.

In "Vampire!", a skeptical doctor is summoned to treat a young woman whose mysterious illness defies explanation—only to find himself caught in a chilling misunderstanding, as the true source of her condition lies far deeper than he ever imagined. The story unfolds with quiet dread, turning familiar tropes on their head in a tale where appearances are dangerously misleading.

In "Murder May Boomerang," a young man and his father, bound by a lifetime of shared moments, face a violent disruption when a fugitive breaks into their remote cabin, stealing clothes and attacking the father. Driven by grief and rage, the son sets out with his injured father to track down the intruder, only to make a terrible mistake when the dazed man points to a stranger—leading the son to run someone down. As the truth begins to unravel, the weight of that decision settles in, and the son must confront the consequences of a split-second judgment.

In "Impending Doom!", a man’s eerie sketch of a face with a circle around it takes a chilling turn when he encounters a grave-stone cutter who looks exactly like the figure he drew—carving a tombstone with his own name. As the artist stumbles into a past romance with the stone-cutter’s wife, the lines between art and fate blur, leading to a confrontation that’s as inevitable as it is deadly.

In "Horror House!", a frazzled writer named Henry escapes city chaos for the isolation of Millford Manor, a secluded estate rumored to be haunted. As he settles in, his friends’ surprise visit turns the quiet house into a nightmare—until the truth behind the manor’s eerie reputation is finally uncovered.

In "Mutiny," Captain Cutter sets sail with three crew members whose loyalty is as false as the flour they use to replace his stolen diamonds. As the crew plots to seize the treasure, the Captain outwits them from the shadows, returning unseen to reclaim his ship—only to reveal the real prize was hidden in plain sight all along.

In "Nightmare!", a construction engineer haunted by recurring dreams of being buried alive seeks help from a psychiatrist who links the visions to repressed stress. After taking the doctor’s advice, he decides to check the concrete moldings on his latest project before vacation—only to doze off and wake to the horrifying realization that the pouring has begun, leaving him trapped in a nightmare he can’t tell from reality.

In "Dead-Ringer," a desperate thief stumbles upon a shocking twist: the wealthy man he’s been emulating online is actually a man with no memory, confined to a local sanitarium. With a scheme to replace him and claim his life, he sets his plan in motion—only to find the truth is far more dangerous than he imagined.

In a secluded Hungarian hotel haunted by a string of mysterious murders, a famed pianist arrives under mysterious circumstances, only to find herself at the center of a deadly game. As the guests flee and the owner grows desperate to keep business, an eerie tension builds—especially when the pianist’s room becomes the site of a chilling discovery. When the owner transforms into a werewolf and tracks her through the night, he stumbles upon a hidden truth beneath the piano’s lid, leading to a shocking confrontation with the very woman he thought he was hunting.

In "Flight From Danger!", an American Army intelligence officer races against time to extract a scientist whose dangerous invention has drawn the attention of East German forces. With the professor wounded and the enemy closing in, the mission becomes a desperate flight for survival as Captain Turner and the scientist’s companion, Lisa, make a harrowing escape across enemy territory.

In "Poison!", a man haunted by his own guilt watches his housekeeper with growing unease, convinced she knows the truth about his wife’s death. As her calm demeanor and quiet remarks begin to unsettle him, he devises a dangerous plan to turn suspicion onto her—before her silence becomes his undoing.

In "The Curse of the Arnold Clan!", a skeptical man stumbles upon an old book in the attic that warns of a grim family tradition: every fifty years, the eldest Arnold is buried alive. When he’s drawn into a costume ball with a scavenger hunt that leads him to a musket, he realizes too late that the artifact lies hidden in the family crypt. As he sneaks in to retrieve it, the caretaker approaches—and he barely has time to hide in a coffin before the lid slams shut, sealing his fate.

In "Terror on the Moors!", a lone traveler named Jim Ryan takes shelter in a remote estate during a thick fog, where he’s welcomed by the reclusive Andrew Clymore and his silent servant, Evers. As night falls, Evers reveals a grim secret: Clymore is dead, and his final wish—to be cremated on a pyre—remains unfulfilled. With the old man too frail to build it himself, Ryan agrees to carry out the task. But when strange sounds echo from a locked room, Evers warns him of a monstrous creature born from Clymore’s darkest legacy. The truth, buried in shadow and fire, is about to rise.

In "Seeds of Death!", a farmer’s quiet life unravels when his wife’s affair with the hired hand ignites a violent reckoning. After burying the man along with a sack of flower seeds, the farmer’s grip on control begins to slip—until his wife, returning from the city, confronts him in a narrow alley. What follows is a brutal, desperate act of survival, and when she returns to the field, the first blooms of those buried seeds bloom in the moonlight, whispering a truth too terrible to ignore.

In "Backlash!", a clever mystery writer obsessed with the perfect locked-room crime finally decides to test his theory in real life—only to find that reality doesn’t play by the rules he’s written. As he watches the police scramble to solve a crime he’s engineered, his confidence begins to unravel in ways he never anticipated.

In "Voodoo Death!", two men who witnessed a forbidden ceremony in Haiti are haunted by a chilling return from the dead. After one of them receives a mysterious package containing a living voodoo doll, the line between fear and fate begins to blur. As the horror unfolds, the truth behind a twisted reunion threatens to consume them both.

In "Sink-Hole!", a lonely woman’s quiet life unravels when her mail-order husband arrives—older than expected, and far from the man she imagined. Drawn to the new health inspector, Rick Hudson, she makes a desperate choice that leads to a chilling act of violence, only to find her hopes dashed when Hudson reveals he’s married and leaving town. As she ventures to the well for water, her world tilts again in a moment of shocking revelation.

In "The Sewer!", a night at the Goldens' party spirals into a desperate crime when Harry and Irene plot to murder John and hide his body in the city's sewers. But when the act leaves Irene horrified and she flees to the police, Harry must think fast to cover his tracks—before the city's underworld and its hidden depths swallow him whole.

In "Midnight Snack!", Duncan Reynolds finds himself drawn into a surreal, unsettling journey after a late-night craving sends him wandering through a nightmarish landscape of a grotesque restaurant and a haunted cemetery. What begins as a simple hunger leads to a chilling sequence of events that blur the line between dream and reality—until the cycle threatens to repeat, triggered by the most ordinary of temptations.

In "Southern Hospitality!", a cunning man married into a wealthy Southern family only to find their fortune a sham. As he squanders their legacy and triggers a chain of deadly accidents, the house itself seems to remember old debts. When a scream echoes from the attic, Claudia discovers the truth behind the family’s dark past—and the price of greed.

In "The Howling Banshee!", a man with a violent past flees to Ireland, seeking refuge from his past and the gangsters who won’t let him go. There, he meets a woman who warns him that the Banshee’s wail signals the death of one of her blood. As the threat closes in, he’s forced into a desperate fight for survival—until his wedding night, when fog and fear blur the line between hunter and hunted. Now, with the wail echoing in his ears, he must face a fate he never saw coming.

In "A Toast...to Death!", a wife’s simmering frustration with her neglectful husband reaches a deadly peak when she poisons his favorite wine, buries him, and begins a life of luxury on his fortune. But when the vine he cherished most refuses to die—blooming again in the garden and exposing her secrets—her carefully built lies begin to unravel, threatening everything she’s gained.

In "About Face!", a once-celebrated circus lion tamer named Lydia, scarred by a panther attack and hidden behind a veil, retreats from the world and delves into witchcraft after her chauffeur Steve betrays her. When she casts a spell for revenge, the curse takes a horrifying turn—Steve’s face begins to rot, and Lydia must confront the consequences of her magic.

In "Hatchet-Killer!", a tense atmosphere settles over Mrs. North’s home as a string of hatchet murders grips the neighborhood. As suspicion narrows to her part-time maid, strange occurrences within the house only deepen her fear—until a shocking act of violence erupts in the dark, driven by terror and mistaken belief.

In "The Vamp!", a man and his wife travel to Europe, where the man is drawn into a dangerous romance with a mysterious woman who reveals herself to be a vampire. When he rejects her, she vows to kill him before he can return to his wife—only to find that his wife has already fallen under the vampire’s spell and now seeks him with deadly intent.