"TERROR! TORTURE! FEAR! MAYHEM! After all, this comic is called CATACOMB OF TORMENT?what did you expect, kittens?! Yes, yes, bite down hard and await the inevitable, because there is no escape and it's too late?MUCH, MUCH TOO LATE?as our host, the Tormentor, carefully positions the scalpels of acutely accurate writers John Arcudi (B.P.R.D), Patricia A. Jackson (Star Wars: Tales from the Empire), and Amy Roy (EC's Epitaphs from the Abyss) above your splayed ribcage with the assistance of mangle-minded artists Shawn Martinbrough (Thief of Thieves), Fabiana Mascolo (Catwoman), and Shawn McManus (Fables)! A murder mystery with extra-added murder, a seamstress seeking sartorial revenge, and a gardener taking the pruning shears to an extra-bloody bloom . . . Despair ye not, because EC Comic's brutally entertaining monthly horror anthology is just getting warmed up!"
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John Arcudi is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Mask and B.P.R.D., and his series Major Bummer. Arcudi grew up in Buffalo, New York.
Amy Roy was born and raised in Philadelphia. She made her directorial debut at age ten, helming the neighborhood's annual Christmas pageant. There were mandatory rehearsals, a script revision to the main character's birth and hot chocolate to keep the talent happy. Too scared to try and become a real artist, Amy graduated from Penn State and become a copywriter, working in the ad industry for over ten years. After years of unhappiness, Amy made the leap and went back to film school in Vancouver, starting her life all over again. She moved to L.A. a year later, and has been working in the industry ever since, as an assistant to various writers and directors. Today, she works for the Donners' Company, and considers it a great honor to work with Richard Donner and Lauren Shuler Donner. Recently, she wrote four issues of the Smooth Criminals comic book series for Boom! Entertainment. She wrote and produced the short, Rent Control, which was screened at over a dozen film festivals, including the DC Independent, winning the audience award at three. She produced the short Of Darkness, accepted to over 100 horror festivals. The Lonely Store marks her (official) directorial debut.
Fabiana Mascolo is a freelance comic book artist based in Rome. Upon graduating top of her class in 2015, she started working in the comics industry both as a penciler and colorist. Over the years, she has worked for companies such as BOOM! Studios, Feltrinelli, and Edizioni BD. In 2019 she started her collaboration with Scout Comics for the miniseries Yasmeen, written by Saif A. Ahmed.