The Leper

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Unrevealed, perhaps human

Occupation: Horror host, gravedigger

Affiliations: None

Enemies: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unidentified cemetery

First Appearance: "Tales from the Graveyard," Scream #1 (IPC, 24th March 1984)

Powers/Abilities: None displayed, apart from a good memory for macabre tales.

History: "They calls me the Leper, 'cos I be slowly rotting away, with a cursed disease. This stinking boneyard they call a cemetery is my home and my prison now. I'm an outcast, see - an outcast o' society but I've seen and heard a few things in me time, I can tell 'e. Things that'd freeze yer blood to ice… Oh aye, the Leper knows a story or two, even though he only be fit for digging graves."

Comments: Created by Tim Tully and John Watson.

CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with

• Digger, another horror host who is also a gravedigger

• Grave Digger, another horror host who is also a gravedigger (it's clearly a popular profession!)

Any Additions/Corrections? Please let me know.

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