by Al Feldstein
First published 2021
A husband discovers his wife's infidelity and plots revenge through a twisted Halloween party game involving their child. A woman and her lover trap her living husband inside a chest freezer to claim his wealth. A brother kills his twin sister and her spouse, then assumes her identity to inherit their fortune, only to face unexpected advances from the estate attorney. When police find a corpse with both a knife wound and bullet hole, they arrest two suspects but must determine which killer struck the fatal blow and which merely desecrated a dead body. These stories from EC Comics explore the dark mathematics of greed, jealousy and murder. Ray Bradbury's chilling short story receives comic adaptation alongside original tales that pushed boundaries during the Senate investigations of comic books in the 1950s.
Genres: short-stories, mystery, horror, thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: twisted-games, unreliable-narrator
Period: 1950s
224 pages · Hardcover · Fantagraphics
Content warnings: murder, violence