Horror Comic - Review No Rest For The Dead

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1953 – spoiler alerts Journey Into Fear comics wrote as a ensemble team so no single writer or artist took credit for this little horror gem with a difference – its ghosts are the victims here rather than the villains. Crypt-keeper Jake Grover can see and hear ghosts howling around the graves he tends to. They don’t frighten him, but he scares them as he knows spells of exorcism, and he torments each of them by telling them what troubles their families have got into without them being able to go and help them. The ghosts eventually fight back, and once buried alive and a ghost himself, Grover is totally at their mercy or eternity – serves the blighter right. Great fun, and sympathetic to the dead without making them any less scary. Arthur Chappell