Dates
- Cover date
- October 2015
- On sale
- October 7, 2015
- In stores
- October 7, 2015
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
Creators
Stories
- Halloween Nightmare · 4 pages
On Halloween, some people gather together for a party and laugh off the idea of demons and ghouls. Just then, the lights go out and a creature appears from within some smoke...a creature who puts the people into a trance and orders them out on a fiendish scavenger hunt.
- Out of the Black Night · 7 pages
A vampire scare hangs over a little town. When a new boy at school confesses that his daddy is a vampire, the elderly school teacher Miss Albright investigates. Meeting the boy's father she discovers that he really is a vampire. But not the one she has been looking for...
- Monster Lore! · 1 pages
A one page summary of classic monsters and their weaknesses.
- Grab-Bag · 6 pages
A group of girls is being haunted by the ghost of a mysterious evil woman, whose stylish accessories came into the girls’ possession.
- Trick or Treat · 5 pages
For an upcoming Halloween party, a man and a woman buy Halloween costumes (a werewolf and a vampire respectively) from a strange old shop owner who warns them the costumes can take over their personalities. At the party, the two literally turn into a werewolf and vampire and proceed to fight each other to the death.
- A Hand of Fate Mystery #32 · A Hand of Fate Mystery · 1 pages
"In the files of the Paris police there can be found a case history of a crime that occurred over thirty years ago..." A man dressed as a devil at a Hallowe'en party kills his ex-girlfriend, then dies after his costume fuses to him.
- The Vampire Cat! · 7 pages
Flo Blain angrily wishes that a gypsy woman named Vilma, who is trying to seduce her fiancee Steve at a Halloween party, would turn into a cat. The wish comes true, and Vilma turns into a vampire/cat creature that must consume blood every 24 hours, or she will be turned into an actual cat forever.
- The Mask of Graffenwehr · 2 pages
Tamis Kahn gazes into the face of a woman he killed earlier in the day.
- The Dead Dance on Halloween · 7 pages
Lona Thornton wants a man promised to another woman. She seeks professional help from a witch and gets a love potion. Drinking it the man transforms into a beast and runs off into the woods with Lona. The witch demands payment. When Lona refuses, the witch kills her on halloween night and dooms her to a dance with the dead.
- How to Be a Gracious Ghost! · 5 pages
An unnamed ghost and Charlie, wearing a Death-like robe, seek advice about haunting an old mansion from Emily Ghost, a Morticia-like character. A werewolf shows up during the lessons. Two newlyweds arrive, escaping from a storm. The monsters scare them only because the eloping newlyweds think that their parents have found them.
Publisher’s description
A terrifying Spook-tacular Halloween Ish! Steve Banes of the infamous “The Horrors of It All” pre-code comics blog, assembles, Frankenstein-like, this Halloween horror-winner of a comic book! Tremble and read if you dare this frightful fare: “Out of the Black Night”, “Trick or Treat” and many more morbid tales! This Halloween eye-candy won’t rot your teeth—just your brain!