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Description: This book consists of 5 stories comprising a total of 424 individual comic strip panels.
Published: Plume, 1982
Father's Day
Description: Nathan
Grantham arranged for his daughter Bedelia's fiancee to meet with an
unfortunate accident. After he suffered a stroke, Bedelia was left to
care for him, but his constant demanding ways soon caused Bedelia to
crack and kill him with an ashtray.
One fathers day Nathan returned from the dead to join his family, and murdered Bedelia.
Characters:
| ?, Hank |
Husband of Cassandra. Killed when the grave of Nathan Grantham falls on him. |
| ?, Henry |
Aunt Sylvia calls Hank, husband of Cassandra, Henry all the time |
| Danvers, Mrs. |
The cook in the Grantham house |
| Grantham, Aunt Bedelia |
She killed her demanding father on Fathers day, but comes to visit
his grave each year of fathers day. This year she is in for a surprise
when she is killed by the corpse of her father. |
| Grantham, Aunt Sylvia |
She told the story about Bedelia killing her father, and then was killed by Nathan Grantham. |
| Grantham, Cassandra |
Wife of Hank. |
| Grantham, Nathan |
Father of Bedelia. Evil and demanding man that is killed, but gets his revenge on fathers day. |
| Grantham, Richard |
Brother? of Cassandra |
| Yarbro, Peter Richard |
Fiancee of Bedelia that was killed on orders of Nathan Grantham. |
Description: Richard
Vickers finds out that his wife Becky is having an affair with Harry
Wentworth. He decided to kill them both by burying them up to their
neck in sand, below the high water mark. Alas nothing is as it seems
and the 2 lovers die, but come back to get their revenge.
Harry and Becky return from the
sea and bury Richard in the sand below the waterline, then return to
the water, leaving him to die as they did.
Characters:
| Vickers, Becky |
Lover of Harry Wentworth and wife of Richard Vickers. Murdered by Richard. |
| Vickers, Richard |
Husband of Becky Vickers. He found out that his wife was cheating, then murdered her. |
| Wentworth, Harry |
Lover of Betty Vickers. Murdered by her husband Richard, but comes back from the dead to get revenge. |
Description: Jordy
is a simple minded man who's life is changed for the worse when he
touches a meteor that lands on his farm outside Castle Rock. He slowly
turns into a walking weed.
Characters:
| Bilkmore, Mr. |
Jordy's Banker |
| Brother Melvin |
Helper of the Reverend White on the TV show Jordy Watched |
| Geeson, Dr. Richard |
Doctor of Jordy Verrill - came from Castle Rock. He was on holidays when Jordy called. |
| Higgins, Dr. Peter V. |
Took Dr Geeson's calls while he was on holidays. Came from Castle Rock |
| Verrill, Anita |
Mother of Jordy. |
| Verrill, Jordy |
Unfortunate simple minded man who touches a strange meteor that lands on his farm, and turns into a walking weed! Kills himself. |
| White, Reverend Fleece U. |
A TV evangelist from the church of the Holy Shrinking Purse on the TV show Jordy Watched |
Description: Everyone
hates bugs, especially cockroaches, but Upson Pratt hates them more
than almost anything. Living in his germproof apartment he tries to get
away from them, but the cockroaches are after him this time, and they
are serious.
Characters:
| Castonmeyer, Lenore |
Wife of Norman Castonmeyer |
| Castonmeyer, Norman |
Husband of Lenore. He killed himself after business dealings with Upson Pratt. |
| Gendron, George |
Works for Upson Pratt |
| Meggs, Sergeant |
Took the phone call from Upson Pratt about the bugs in his apartment . |
| Parelli, ? |
Brothers that are exterminators. |
| Pratt, Upson |
Rich man that hates bugs and germs. His apartment is taken over by cockroaches that eventually kill him. |
| Reynolds, Carl |
Works for Upson Pratt |
| Reynolds, Mrs. |
Wife of Carl. |
| White, ? |
Works for Upson Pratt |
Description: There
is something alive after 134 years in The Crate from an Arctic
expedition. It's really a monster of such ferocity that it's just like
a cartoon... A cartoon with a deadly appetite! Well it's widely known
that "Tasmanian devil's" can not take a joke, especially when
they were captured and locked away since June 19, 1834. Mike Latimer,
and Charlie Gereson both found out the hard way and were killed and
eaten by the creature.
Henry Northrup decides to use
the creature to get rid of his meddling wife, so leaves a note asking
for her to come to the University, then leads her to the crate where
she is devoured by the creature. Henry cleans up and disposes of the
crate and creature into Ryder's Quarry.
Characters:
| Carpenter, Julia |
A name of the side of the Crate |
| Gereson, Charlie |
Made a joke about the thing in the crate, and was killed shortly after. |
| Latimer, Mike |
A janitor at the University. He found the crate, and was killed by it's content. |
| Northrup, Henry |
Husband of Wilma. He wrote a letter and got her to come to the crate, where she was murdered. |
| Northrup, Wilma (Billie) |
Wife of Henry, that drinks too much, and makes a real pest of herself. She is killed by the thing in the Crate. |
| Stanley, Dexter |
He was a good friend of Henry Northrup, and was told about the crate and it's contents. |

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