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The Best of Tharg's Terror Tales #2



Appearing in "Cold Spots"[]

Featured characters:

  • Helen Tate

Supporting characters:

  • Hendrickson

Villains:

  • Yes

Other characters:

  • Russell
  • Dave

Location:

  • Northern Greenland

Items:

  • Camera

Vehicles:

  • Aeroplane
  • Snowcat

Synopsis for "Cold Spots"[]

An archaeologist finds the remains of her grandfather's expedition, which was looking for races of a lost Hyperborean civilisation.

Appearing in "Man Bites God"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Lisa Aaron

Supporting characters:

  • Joshua Adam

Villains:

  • Anton Robard

Other characters:

  • Shouting woman outside abortion clinic (in flashback)

Location:

  • USA

Items:

  • Gun

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "Man Bites God"[]

A bodyguard is asked to protect a televangelist.

Appearing in "Futurity"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Clarence

Supporting characters:

  • Jake
  • Jamie
  • Andrea
  • Mark
  • Zach

Villains:

  • Great Old Ones

Other characters:

  • Police officers
  • Paramedics

Location:

  • UK
  • Elsewhere

Items:

  • Liao, a drug used by the ancients of Nepal to free their minds from bodily constraints and travel through space and time

Vehicles:

  • Ambulance

Synopsis for "Futurity"[]

Chaos magicians contact the Great Old Ones.

Appearing in "Hunters"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Lieutenant Ramier, Third Marine Infantry Regiment

Supporting characters:

  • Richard Valandre

Villains:

  • Seiny (woman with a snake emerging from her mouth)

Other characters:

  • Hotel receptionist
  • Carson

Location:

  • Ivory Coast

Items:

  • Gun

Vehicles:

  • Car

Synopsis for "Hunters"[]

A man is nearly killed by a snake that emerges from the mouth of a woman, before being unexpectedly rescued.

Appearing in "Lost Property"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Jamie, a man who works at the lost property office

Supporting characters:

  • Ghosts
  • Jamie's dad

Villains:

  • None

Other characters:

  • Terry Chambers

Location:

  • London

Items:

  • Lost compass

Vehicles:

  • Tube train

Synopsis for "Lost Property"[]

Ghosts keep coming to a lost property office on the London Underground to retrieve their missing belongings.

Appearing in "Menhir"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Mark

Supporting characters:

  • Mark's mum

Villains:

  • Yes

Other characters:

  • Sophie, Mark's sister

Location:

  • Shewsford, UK

Items:

  • Broken rusty ladder

Vehicles:

  • Police car

Synopsis for "Menhir"[]

A boy makes a bargain with a standing stone. This is unwise, because stones have very long memories.

Appearing in "Kitsuneland"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Anna

Supporting characters:

  • Drew

Villains:

  • Yes

Other characters:

  • Police officer
  • Police dog

Location:

  • Japan

Items:

  • Camera

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "Kitsuneland"[]

Two women explore an abandoned theme park in the middle of the night.

Appearing in "Blackspot"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Derek and Vivian

Supporting characters:

  • None

Villains:

  • Yes

Other characters:

  • Tony Thompson (mentioned)

Location:

  • A rural road

Items:

  • Road sign

Vehicles:

  • Car, registration PN34 EVR

Synopsis for "Blackspot"[]

A man and his wife have a car accident on a dangerous stretch of road.

Appearing in "The Death Magnetic"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Matty (a doctor)

Supporting characters:

  • Bazza (a super-fan)

Villains:

  • Tarquin Fleece (an internet millionaire)

Other characters:

  • Lester Veinburst (a dead singer)
  • Tarquin Fleece's wife
  • Police officer

Location:

  • Museum of Sounds
  • Fleece's mansion

Items:

  • Tape

Vehicles:

  • Car

Synopsis for "The Death Magnetic"[]

A man finds the lost tape of a dead singer.

Appearing in "Done Deal"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Tia Parish

Supporting characters:

  • Kieron

Villains:

  • @Nick

Other characters:

  • Tia and Kieron's mother
  • Dru, Tia's friend
  • Dr Hussain

Location:

  • Urban UK

Items:

  • Smartphone

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "Done Deal"[]

Tia's mother is critically ill and she suspects that her brother has started dealing drugs again.

Appearing in "Night Shifts"[]

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Featured characters:

  • Man

Supporting characters:

  • None

Villains:

  • Monster

Other characters:

  • Mike (mentioned)

Location:

  • Urban UK

Items:

  • Laptop

Vehicles:

  • None

Synopsis for "Night Shifts"[]

A man alone in his house at night is attacked by a hideous monster.

Notes[]

Reprints Tharg's Terror Tales from 2000 AD progs 1494, 1553, 1599, 1608, 1665, 1713, 1784, 1801, 1836, 1886 and 1957.

Trivia[]

Given away free with Judge Dredd Megazine 389.


Recommended reading[]

See above.

Links and references[]

Visit the 2000 AD website for all your thrill-power needs.

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