“Mirror, mirror, on the wall… who’s the fearest of them all? Looks like I just bought 7 years’ bad luck! Speaking of bad luck, it’s time for another nasty little terror tale from my crawly collection… and this one’s got a message, too. It’s a story about greed, death and a girl, who learned that beauty… is Only Sin Deep!”

This story originally appeared in Haunt of Fear #24. It was written by Otto Binder and drawn by Jack Kamen.

Sylvia (Lea Thompson) is a call girl who sells her beauty to a pawn shop operator named Joe (Britt Leach) so that she can get the money she needs to lure Ronnie Price (Brett Cullen) into marrying her. Joe uses a plaster cast of her face to bring his dead wife back and tells her in a few months, if she doesn’t pay him back, her face will start to lose its looks. The problem is, she forgets when the money is due and suddenly needs a hundred thousand to get her face back. By this point, no one recognizes her, not even her rich new husband, who she shoots to get the cash. But alas — it’s way too late to fix anything.

Thompson’s husband Howard Deutch (Pretty In Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Great Outdoors) directed her in this story and she was friends with Cullen for a long time, which made the love scenes somewhat hard to film. This episode was written by Fred Dekker and Steven Dodd.

I have to confess, I’ve had a crush on Lea Thompson forever and seeing her be a cruel woman who kills a pimp and uses a rich man, well, that adoration is not leaving me any time soon.

“Poor Sylvia, eh, kiddies? Guess she heard the old saying, “if looks could kill”… so she did! Haha! Just goes to show ya, if you wanna sell yourself, take a look in the mirror, first. Eurgh! Well, see you next time, boys and ghouls!”