Genre:horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A man is killed by the skeletal hand of his unborn/undeveloped twin that was grafted onto his ankle before birth.

Reprints (2)

• in Haunted Horror (IDW; Yoe Books, 2012 series) #11 (June 2014)
• in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW; Yoe Books, 2010 series) #16 - Haunted Horror: Candles for the Undead! and Much More! (Volume 4) (August 2016)

Genre:horror-suspense

Synopsis:

A man lets his mentally handicapped cousin (who's left under his care) starve to death so he can claim his inheritance. The problem is, the cousin's ghost comes back for revenge.

Reprints (1)

• in Haunted Horror (IDW; Yoe Books, 2012 series) #13 (October 2014)
which is reprinted
• in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW; Yoe Books, 2010 series) #21 - Haunted Horror: The Screaming Skulls! and Much More! (Volume 5) (March 2017)

Kurtzman imitation

Genre:horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Herman Haas is the last of his family line from Germany. His family was infamous for creating the "jinx of the blue candle", which is a blue wax candle that, when breathed upon by the victim, will cause the victim to die after the flame flickers out. Herman had destroyed the candle-making book and wants to never continue this family practice. When Satan (Lucifer H. Diablo) himself visits Herman, he forces him to make a blue candle from memory. Herman tries to escape but is killed. However, Satan had breathed on the candle and is destroyed once the flame flickers out.

Reprints (1)

• in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW; Yoe Books, 2010 series) #14 - Devil Tales (December 2015)

Much of the art in this story is reprinted in Mister Mystery (Stanley Morse, 1951 series) #9 "Everlasting Life". The story was rewritten.

Genre:horror-suspense

Synopsis:

Henry Meeks is being continually harrassed by his wife to the point of planning her murder. However, she is having similar thoughts about doing him in as well and does! Unfortunately for her, his death is not the end; it's the beginning of a new form of disgust with her former husband.

Reprints (3)

• in Alter Ego (TwoMorrows Publishing, 1999 series) #119 (August 2013)
• in Haunted Horror (IDW; Yoe Books, 2012 series) #17 (June 2015)
• in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW; Yoe Books, 2010 series) #24 - Haunted Horror: Nightmare of Doom and Much More! (Volume 6) (March 2018)

Stern credit per Jack Butterworth and Nick Caputo, who notes that Stern is credited with working on the title in Jerry Bails' Who's Who of American Comic Books. Stern was a former roommate of Harvey Kurtzman, suggesting a reason why this work resembles Kurtzman. Andru Pencils per Ger Apeldoorn via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8699).

This story directly references Kurtzman's story, "The Mysterious Ray From Another Planet," which is found in Weird Fantasy #4. The protagonists from "Television Ghost" are taken directly from the EC story, though not directly swiped. Instead, this is a completely new story based on Kurtzman's visuals, and is such a complete re-creation of Kurtzman's style that one of Kurtzman's former students, cartoonist Batton Lash, believes that Kurtzman actually drew this story, and, if that is true, then this could be a "lost" Kurtzman story. This information added by Craig Delich 2013-8-1 from article by Michael Gilbert in Alter Ego #119 (August 2013).

Genre:horror-suspense