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TM AUNTED LOVE is the unholy spawn of Horror and Weird Love! Read the screams of terror from these creepy critics: H “ is an essential collection for any comic horror fan. This is horror with a heart—a beating, bloody one at that—with clear homages to the narrative construction of American horror literature, particularly H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, in the tales of sinister romance. HAUNTED HAUNTED l ve “Haunted Love is a fun, dark, and devilish exploration of love within horror—a fascinating look at the social and cultural representations of 1950s America through the uncensored medium of .” The UNHOLY SPAWN of HAUNTED HORROR and WEIRD LOVE. —Big Comic Page “This is the stuff that made people burn comics in the 1950s. This is the good stuff!” —Comic Wow l ve l

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