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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published August 1974
Cover Price 0.75 USD
Pages 68
Editing Al Hewetson

Cover Details

Genre horror
Pencils Faba
Inks Faba

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Psycho 1974 Yearbook Ad"

Genre horror
Pencils Steve Hickman
Inks Steve Hickman
Notes Frontispiece
Reprinted from Psycho (Skywald, 1971 series) #2 (March 1971)

8 page story "The Tell-Tale Heart"

Genre horror
Script Edgar Allan Poe (short-story); Al Hewetson (adaptation)
Pencils Ricardo Villamonte
Inks Ricardo Villamonte
Notes Adaptation of the short-story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe.

2 page The Archaic Horror Mailbag text article "Augustine Funnell profile"

Genre fact
Script Al Hewetson
Letters typeset

9 page Nosferatu story "My Prison Is Hell"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Zesar Lopez [miscredited to Cesar Lopez]
Inks Zesar Lopez

8 page Slither-Slime Man story "The Slither-Slime Man Rises Again"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson [as Howie Anderson]
Pencils Jose Cardona
Inks Jose Cardona

2 page Horror-Mood Artist of the Month text article "Suso Rego: Horror-Mood Artist Of The Month"

Genre fact
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Jesus Suso Rego
Inks Jesus Suso Rego

11 page story "The Mechanical Cannibals"

Genre horror
Script Harry Harrison (short-story); Richard Buckler (adaptation)
Pencils Richard Buckler
Inks Chic Stone
Notes Adaptation of the short-story "From Fanaticism, Or for Reward" by Harry Harrison from the magazine Analog (Mar 1969). Originally done in 1971 and had been intended to appear as a 10 page story for the aborted Science Fiction Odyssey #1. . It was expanded to 11 pages by inserting a pin-up page taken from what was intended to be the frontispiece. The original author, Harry Harrison, was one of the original EC horror artists.

20 page Saga of the Victims story "I... Am Torment"

Genre horror
Script Al Hewetson
Pencils Jesus Suso Rego
Inks Jesus Suso Rego

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Nightmare Ad"

Genre horror
Pencils Sebastia Boada
Inks Sebastia Boada
Notes Inside back cover
Reprinted from Nightmare (Skywald, 1970 series) #20 [cover reprint in black and white]