Strange Fantasy #8

(October 1953)

Death Strikes Four (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A party of four friends visits a country home. Little do they know that the clock tower nearby is inhabited by an evil spirit. The clockwork runs on human flesh and blood - as the friends soon find out.

Reprints

• in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v2#1 (February 1969)
• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v2#4 (July 1970)
• in Strange Galaxy (Eerie Publications, 1971 series) #v1#9 (April 1971)
• in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#1 (January 1972)
• in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#3 (May 1974) [reworked]
which is reprinted
• in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v9#3 (July 1978)
• in The Black Legend (Gredown, 1984 ? series) ([1984] ?)

The Riddle of Manitou Rock (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Genre

horror-suspense; western-frontier

Synopsis

Part indian hermit Terry lives under Manitou Rock, a sacred site. A friendly will o' the wisp guides him to a hidden bandit treasure, but some gangsters start to interfere.

Reprints

• in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v1#6 (July 1969), #v3#1 (February 1971)

Ghost Cat (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

African ghost story from Kenya: The great hunters R'wana and Ngobi fight over the chieftain's daughter, Blina.

Reprints

• from Strange Fantasy (Farrell, 1952 series) #7 (August 1953) [retitled]

Indexer Notes

Original title: "The Legend."

Guided Death (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

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Genre

war

Synopsis

Captain Davis, a pilot in the Korean conflict, bravely manages to direct an unmanned plane (a guided missile) straight into its target - thus blowing up a railroad tunnel.

Indexer Notes

Straight war story.

Cry from the Coffin (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A nameless man hits his head on a fire hydrant in the street and falls into a locked-in-state of being. Fully conscious, but unable to move or speak he has to witness identification by his unfaithful wife, an autopsy in which his heart is removed and his own funeral.

Reprints

• in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v1#12 (October 1966)
• in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v1#7 (September 1969)
• in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comics, 1989 series) #7 (Winter 1992-1993)
• in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #20 (December 2015)
• in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (IDW, 2010 series) #25 - Haunted Horror: Cry from the Coffin! And Much More! (Volume 7) (January 2019)