Amazing Stories of Suspense #89
"Evil Lurks Amongst Us" in Amazing Stories of Suspense #89 delivers a mind-bending twist on the classic séance trope, as a skeptical reporter’s attempt to debunk a hypnotist’s spirit channeling act spirals into a terrifying loop across time. With art by John Forte and a striking cover by Paul Reinman, the story plunges its protagonist into a disorienting journey where identity dissolves across centuries—leaving him trapped between lives, unsure of who he truly is.
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A reporter thinks reincarnation a scam and so he plans to expose a hypnotist who has prepared a hoax with his wife to channel a spirit through time. However, even though the hypnotist thinks that he is performing an act, the reporter actually becomes hypnotized and he finds himself inhabiting the body of a man 500 years from the present day. They are still doing channeling act 500 years in the future and the reporter gets re-hypnotized and sent back 500 years, but he is now perplexed as to his identity. He begs the hypnotist to answer the question of who he is.
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