Story continues from
GIANT-SIZE CHILLERS #1.
At Castle Dunwick,
Count Dracula has been protecting Shiela Whittier from her unseen tormenter and
with the death of Lord Henry, it seemed the trouble was over—but the house
itself gives out with sinister laughter and things aren’t done yet. And then
Shiela is again attacked by an unseen hand. Dracula puts her to bed, still
intending to make her his slave. Dracula is then assaulted by an invisible
foe….
Taj Nital arrives at
his home city of Jajpur, India, ready for a long-delayed meeting with his
wife….
At the castle,
Dracula tries to fight back against his unseen assailant but he continues to be
buffeted, and the chandelier drops on him. A deadly wind rushes through the
windows of the bedroom, sending Shiela screaming. She reveals to Dracula the
source of the torment: her late uncle Alestar Dunwick. On his death, he willed
her the castle; she didn’t like the look of it but her boyfriend Freddy liked
it and persuaded her to stay. Then a ghostly hand pushed him down the stairs to
his death. Dracula heads off to town for a victim, preying on a late-night
motorist by pretending to be hit and then seizing her and drinking her blood when
she stops….
While Dracula is
gone, Shiela encounters the ghost of Uncle Alestar, finally strong enough to
take on a visible form. He reveals that he is actually her father, murdered by
her fortune-hunting mother. He sold his soul to Satan to be able to return and
haunt her to madness and now he has to sacrifice Shiela to keep his pledge to
the Darkling Gods. Alestar throws Shiela into a dungeon filled with skeletons
of previous sacrifices—and Alestar’s own body, turned to gold and preserved for
the ages. Dracula returns and confronts Alestar; the ghost insists Dracula must
worship Satan but the Vampire Lord worships no one. The two battle and Dracula
determines that Alestar’s existence is tied to his golden body and he destroys
it. As Alestar dies once more Dracula stands over him and mocks….