Giant Size Vampire-Thing

Charlton Comics had a wide library of horror titles in the early Bronze Age, but Fear-Feeder from Scary Tales #4 has an obvious rip-off of swamp monster characters like Swamp Thing or Man-Thing. Instead of the creature being identified as another standard mossman, the bayou beast is labeled as a "vampire". Most times your average Nosferatu is a living dead bloodsucker that sometimes displays batlike characteristics, but this dark dweller is covered with pond scum and lives of its victims' fear-induced empathy. Most supernatural cryptids aren't referred to as a vampire that munches up the bad vibes of craven mortals. In the story, a pair of hick brothers decide to get lucky at the local saloon and leave their nearly comatose grandma alone for the evening at their rickety shack, although they are shocked to death when they witness the Fear-Feeder popping its head out of the dark causing them to crash their jeep and die. The walking salad is now hungry as he can't get his empathic fix for fear since you can't scare a pair of corpses, and not even a quick fight with a swamp fox is enough to fill his tank. Fear-Feeder detects the sleepy granny in the remote cabin and plans to make a buffet out of her, but she confuses the swamp monster for her dead husband who of course was named Jed like most of the hillbilly population. The old lady's error causes Feeder to instead absorb her misplaced love which is like Kryptonite to a vampiric vegetable, and immediately kills him. Love can conquer all, but a drunken senior citizen's lust can apparently napalm undead broccoli into oblivion.