Black Nights
Editor: Glénat Italia
publication date: 1990
cover price: Lire 22.000 (€ 11,36)
Cover: Bruce Jones
contains the following stories:
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"The Well"
publication date: 1986
pencil: John Bolton
story: Bruce Jones
Little masterpiece created by Bolton.
A couple is about to make love in their new home when they hear a noise coming from a nearby well.
The husband goes down the well and is killed.
His wife goes down to look for him and is captured by a monstrous creature who rapes her.
As she flees she notices that the creature has many children who feed on their human mothers.
Distraught, she uses the methane in the well to kill the creature and its young.
When she recovers from the explosion, in the hospital, she discovers that she is pregnant.
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“Some for one Verse… And some for the Other!!”
publication date: 1986
pencil: Bill Wray
story: Bruce Jones
The same event, seen from two different timelines.
In the first version, a thief is caught at a costume party and kills the guest dressed as a bear who discovered him.
Wearing the costume he tries to escape but is killed by the hunters.
In the second version the guest kills the thief and escapes with the stolen goods, but is killed by a bear.
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"Way Down There below in the Dark..."
publication date: 1986
pencil: Thom Enriquez
story: Bruce Jones
A deformed creature lives in the sewers, unaware of its own strength and the rest of the world.
Above him a child must suffer the abuse of his mother.
The boy escapes into the sewers and encounters the creature, which is killed by the boy's mother.
The creature's remains later end up in the body of the child who becomes possessed by it.
When the mother tries to beat him again, the child eats her.
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"The ET Ranger"
publication date: 1986
pencil: Berni Wrightson
story: Bruce Jones
A man moves to an isolated village in Canada and tries to befriend a resident.
The man tells him a crazy story about how he lost his hands, many years ago.
He too had just arrived and the other villagers challenged him to reach an isolated area with his snowmobile.
Caught in a storm, he suffered frostbite on his hands and would have died if he had not been saved by a werewolf.
The newcomer is shocked by the story, but it turns out that he was just making fun of him, having never lost his hands.
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“Scritch… Scritch… Scritch…”
publication date: 1986
pencil: Bruce Jones
story: Bruce Jones
A man is tormented by the noise of mice that only he can hear.
The paranoia that haunts him puts his relationship with his wife and his mental health at risk.
After his suicide we discover that his friend and dentist put a transmitter in his tooth to drive him mad and steal his wife.
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“Over His Head”
publication date: 1986
pencil: Mike Ploog
story: Bruce Jones
An antisocial man moves into a run-down neighborhood.
Loneliness drives him crazy, believing he is having a relationship with a beautiful woman who is only after his money and he ends up killing her.
It turns out that the woman was nothing more than a doll and he killed himself by sticking his head in a fish tank.
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