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Last night's pulse-pounding nightmare didn't end when you found yourself awake and catching your breath upon sweat-stained sheets. Instead, it's standing in the doorway with rows of razor-sharp teeth and a penetrating gaze that cuts all the way to the dark heart of the human condition. As they craft this month's epitaphs through gritted teeth and tortured fingers, join wretched writers Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets) Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Michael W. 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You’ve come to the right place . . . because EC Comics is serving another tortuous session of frightful delights with the CATACOMB OF TORMENT!Prepare to be mortified—literally—as manacled writers Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden), and Paul Tobin (The Witcher) are forced to turn the crank and twist the tension-wracked fingertips of artists PJ Holden (2000 AD), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and Dan McDaid (Epitaphs from the Abyss) into blood-spattered spectacle! Sound like fun? 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