Appearing in "Forewarned Is Fore-Armed!"
Featured Characters:
- Carl Brock (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Headstone P. Gravely (Host)
Antagonists:
- "Dr. Caruthers" (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Digger (Riderick Krupp) (Mentioned)
- Numerous unnamed Prison Guards (Main story and flashback)
- Unnamed Warden
- Unnamed Governor (Mentioned)
- Devil (Mentioned)
- Unidentified Police Department (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Unrevealed alien race (Main story and flashback)
- Rats (Mentioned)
- Rabbits (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- Unnamed Prison
- United States of America
- Unnamed Planet (Only in flashback) (Vision or hallucination)
Items:
- Unnamed Alien Mind Helmet (Only in flashback) (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
- Alien Spacecrafts (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for "Forewarned Is Fore-Armed!"
Four-armed alien invaders from a doomed planet make use of an escaped convict to learn of Earth, but they fix it so that no one understands his speech when he tries to warn of the impending assault.
Appearing in "The Face of Fear!"
Featured Characters:
- Freddy Garricks (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Digger (Roderick Krupp) (Host)
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Ghost (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Mr. Garricks (Freddy's Father)
- Smith Brothers (Mentioned)
- Mrs. Garricks (Freddy's Mother) (Mentioned)
- Death (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Earth
- United States of America
- Garricks' Apartment
- United States of America
- Earth
- Heaven (Invoked)
Synopsis for "The Face of Fear!"
Yet another version of the Ditko story from Tales of Suspense #21.
Appearing in "The Day of the Red Death!"
Featured Characters:
- George Harris (First appearance; dies)
Supporting Characters:
- Stan Lee (Host)
Antagonists:
- Survivors of the Red Death
- Rupert Griswold (First appearance; dies)
- Lenore (First appearance; dies)
- Prince Marco (First appearance; dies)
- Carlotta Moore (Betty Jean Wannameyer) (First appearance; dies)
- Three unnamed others (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- Headstone P. Gravely (Mentioned)
- Saki (Mentioned)
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Mentioned)
- Ambrose Bierce (Mentioned)
- Edgar Allan Poe (Mentioned)
- Rupert Griswold's Scientists (Only in flashback)
- Dr. Farnum (Only in flashback) (First appearance; dies)
- Numerous unnamed scientists
- Lord (Invoked)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616 (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Griswold's Bunker (Main story and flashback)
- Griswold's Arms Plant (Only in flashback)
- Kansas (Mentioned)
- Cantrell (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Red Death (Disease) (Main story and flashback)
Synopsis for "The Day of the Red Death!"
Poe's "Red Death" in a contemporary setting.
Solicit Synopsis
(December) A face in a mirror - a book that foretells the future - a chiller by Edgar Allan Poe - and a must!
- (January) AND, STILL ON SALE - ! A face in a mirror! A book that foretells the future! A chiller by Edgar Allan Poe! It's a must!
Notes
- Forewarned is Fore-Armed! is reprinted in Creatures on the Loose #14.
- The Face of Fear! and The Day of the Red Death! are reprinted in the Chamber of Darkness Special #1.
- The Day of the Red Death! is loosely based on The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe.
Trivia
- The tagline for this issue is "Enter... The Red Death!"
See Also
Recommended Reading
Links and References
- Chamber of Darkness article at Wikipedia
- Digger article at Wikipedia
- Digger profile at the Marvel Universe