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Issue: The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! #16
Publication Date: August 2016
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Issues: #16 of 25 Issues
Title: Haunted Horror: Candles for the Undead! and Much More! (Volume 4)
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Publisher: FlagIDW
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Indicia Publisher: IDW Publishing
On Sale Date: 2016
Volume:
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781631406713
UPC/EAN: 978163140671352499
Price: $24.99 USD
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Content Items: 39 (24 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Craig Yoe; Clizia Gussoni; Steve Banes
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color cover
Dimensions: 8.7" x 11"
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Binding: hardcover
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Penciller(s): L. B. Cole (signed)
Inker(s): L. B. Cole (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: adventure
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Drazen Kocjan
Inker(s): Drazen Kocjan
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Character(s): "Madam" Clizia Gussoni
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Angelo Torres
Inker(s): Angelo Torres
Subject Matter
Character(s): Craig "Forelock the Warlock" Yoe
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Penciller(s): Art Fuentes
Inker(s): Art Fuentes
Subject Matter
Character(s): Steve "Mr. Karswell" Banes
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Haunted Horror

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Normal Nodel (spot illustration)
Inker(s): Vince Alascia (spot illustration)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Caution. Do not read this book ...

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): Artie Delmar
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A Day of Panic

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Warren Kremer
Inker(s): Warren Kremer
Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: horror
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Penciller(s): L. B. Cole (signed)
Inker(s): L. B. Cole (signed)
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Genres: adventure
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The Cult Of The 13 Ghosts

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Bob Powell
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Semple Ridgedon; Meggar; Cult of Death
Synopsis: When landlord Semple Ridgedon finds a society of murderers lodging in one of his buildings, he tears the place down and rebuilds it in a modern way. But the evil ghosts appear anew and confront Ridgedon with his promise to join them in their cult of murder.
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The Monster's Ghost

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando
Inker(s): Joe Orlando
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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Bruce Gibson
Synopsis: Ghost hunter Bruce Gibson buys a haunted house and challenges a satanic "dark stranger" to work his worst magic. He conjures a "monster's ghost" out of the bodies of four dead men, a black bull and drops of Gibson's blood. With the help of this powerful demon the dark stranger matches his wits against the ghost hunter's.
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Epitaph!

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Sal Trapani (signed)
Inker(s): Sal Trapani (signed)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Edgar Clay; Miriam Clay
Synopsis: Edgar Clay is distraught that his faithful wife Miriam fell to her death from a cliff when he was away at work. Overcome by lonely grief, he visits the cemetery she is buried at to feel consoltation. As night falls, he sees the silent dead rising from their graves rewriting their epitaphs to reveal the truths about how they lived their lives. He's shocked to see Miriam write her epitaph revealing that she fell off the cliff waiting her lover!
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Disclose Notes: Inspired by "La Morte" (1887) by Guy de Maupassant, translated as "Was It A Dream?" in English (1910).
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Hand of Fate

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Moe Marcus
Inker(s): Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio ?
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Elsted; Evard; Katrina; Karl Hansen
Synopsis: A farmer seems unconcerned when his farmhands are murdered by vampiric monsters on lonely foggy nights. It's later revealed that the vampires are the farmer's mute wife and daughter.
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Prey for the Vampire Horde

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Penciller(s): Lou Cameron (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Cameron (signed)
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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Eric Barnes; Lydia; Count Pramevi
Synopsis: Eric Barnes, an audio engineer, is captured by sinister count Pramevi (anagram for 'vampire'). He is to build a recording machine to preserve the count's voice for all eternity. But Barnes constructs a supersonic weapon that disturbs the vampire's flight. Pramevi crashes to the ground.
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Midnight Limited!

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Rudy Palais?
Inker(s): Joe Certa
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Dave Barker
Synopsis: A man mistakenly gets on board a train of the dead, much to his regret.
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Penciller(s): Warren Kremer
Inker(s): Warren Kremer
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Genres: adventure
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The Witches Come at Midnight!

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Norman Nodel (signed)
Inker(s): Vince Alascia (signed)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Peter, the Rooster; Joel Rainey; Ezra Rainey; Mrs. Rainey; Satan
Synopsis: Witches (along with their master Satan himself), converge every night at midnight at the old Rainey farm terrorizing the family. One night when young Joel is attacked by the monsters, his pet rooster "Peter" arrives and scares off the creatures who think he's Chanticleer, the fabled rooster.
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Hallahan's Head!

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ken Landau (signed)
Inker(s): Ken Landau (signed)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): J. V. Fletcher; Hallahan; Otongo; Lisa; Charlie
Synopsis: J.V. Fletcher wants his partner Hallahan murdered so he can take over the entire rubber plantation business they own together in Brazil. He hires Otongo, a native witch doctor, to do the deed and to send Fletcher proof of the murder by sending him Hallahan's head. After the deed is done and Fletcher returns to America, the severed head of Hallahan stalks him for revenge.
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Day of Panic

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Writer(s): Howard Nostrand
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: The small town of Twin Oaks is besieged by panic and paranoia when word gets out that a vampire is living among the townsfolk.
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Hand

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ross Andru
Inker(s): Mike Esposito ?
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man is killed by the skeletal hand of his unborn/undeveloped twin that was grafted onto his ankle before birth.
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Candles for the Undead

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jim McLaughlin
Inker(s): Jim McLaughlin
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A down-and-out candle maker is desperate, and cannot buy animal fat to make more product. After his fiancee leaves him, he becomes desperate, and resorts to digging graves to steal the bodies for making his wares. This, of course, comes with consequences.
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Demons of the Sun

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Penciller(s): Rudy Palais
Inker(s): Rudy Palais
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A man suffering through intense heat out in the jungle curses the sun. The local witchdoctor curses him and he is sent to the sun to suffer at the hands of Soltan the Sun King.
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The Locked Door

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Ed Waldman ?
Inker(s): Ed Waldman ?
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Young artist Tom Daly wants to paint the macabre, because it fascinates him. Encountering horror master painter Peter Gynt and spending a dreadful night at his lonely mansion will change his life forever.
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Penciller(s): Warren Kremer
Inker(s): Lee Elias
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: horror
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Code of the Shadowmaster

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Cameron (signed)
Inker(s): Lou Cameron (signed)
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Letterer(s): typeset (Leroy lettering)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Carnival silhouette artist Linc Mars learns to cut magic silhouettes from a burial sackcloth. He uses his abilities to amass riches, but runs out of magic and has to die by his own scissors.
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A Dead Ball

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Writer(s): ?
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Coach Will Rawson; Dick Rawson; Bud Fowler; Jack Fowler
Synopsis: Coach Will Rawson is a mad man constantly driving his football players to play through injuries without any mercy to their wellbeing. After one of his players (Bud Fowler) dies on the field, Bud's brother Jack exacts revenge on the coach through murder, turning his head into a new football.
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Bride of Death

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Jack Katz (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Katz (signed)
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Joseph; Delores Martiz; Mario
Synopsis: Joseph needs a fresh corpse for his experiments, which is provided when Delores Martiz dies on her wedding day. He brings her back from the dead, and then once more, but cannot win her for himself.
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Job Number: B-1322
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand
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Genres: horror, humorous
Feature(s): Chilly Chamber Music: Songs from the Spook Box
First Line: They saw three little fishes...
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Howard Nostrand
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand
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Genres: horror, humorous
Feature(s): Chilly Chamber Music: Songs from the Spook Box
First Line: When day is done and shadows fall...
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Your Head for Mine

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (Iger Studio)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A woman convinces her lover to kill her rich husband. The lover does so by blowing the husband's head off with a gun. After the wife and her lover get married and cash in on the dead man's insurance, the headless corpse of the husband comes back from the dead looking for a new head.
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The Cloak of a Corpse

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Celardo
Inker(s): Rocco Mastroserio
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: When a man steals a hanged man's robe, the dead comes to visit him and retrieves his cloak.
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Job Number: B-1298
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Mind Over Matter

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Writer(s): Bob Powell ?
Penciller(s): Bob Powell
Inker(s): Howard Nostrand
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: A doctor learns the secret of entering the minds of people from a dying mystic. When he attempts to prove this to his colleagues, he enters the mind of a homicidal maniac and is almost killed by his evil thoughts. After the demonstration, the doctor realizes how dangerous entering the minds of men is and refuses to make the secret known to anyone.
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Murderers' Row

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Tex Blaisdell
Inker(s): Tex Blaisdell
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Strange things happen in and around Professor Caglio's wax exhibition of murderers through history. Can Elsa and boyfriend Terry escape when trapped in the storage room?
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And Then What????

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Bob McCarty
Inker(s): Bob McCarty
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Genres: horror
Character(s): Doctor Death (host)
Synopsis: Psychiatrist helps man overcome his delusion of turning into a bat.
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The Clock

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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Joe Certa
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Genres: horror
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Disclose Notes: Reproduced from original artwork.
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The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics

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Penciller(s): various
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Disclose Notes: Advertising no's 12 and 15 from this series as well as the at the time of publication still forthcoming titles "The Return of the Zombies" and "The Complete Voodoo, Volume 2".
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Penciller(s): Drazen Kocjan
Inker(s): Drazen Kocjan
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Character(s): "Madam" Clizia Gussoni
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Angelo Torres
Inker(s): Angelo Torres
Subject Matter
Character(s): Craig "Forelock the Warlock" Yoe
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): Art Fuentes
Inker(s): Art Fuentes
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Character(s): Steven "Mr. Karswell" Banes
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Haunted Horror: Candles for the Undead ...

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Penciller(s): Bob McCarty (detail from story inside)
Inker(s): Bob McCarty (detail from story inside)
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