Chamber of Chills #13
In "When the Creature Escapes," a man’s defiance of his wife’s warnings leads to a string of eerie misfortunes after he removes the hex signs from their barn. Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Don Heck, this chilling tale from Chamber of Chills #13 (1974) builds suspense as a sudden turn of fortune—winning the lottery—seems to prove his skepticism was right… until a final, unsettling moment reveals the truth behind the good luck he thought he’d earned. The cover, by Larry Lieber and Frank Giacoia, captures the story’s creeping dread.
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A man removes hex signs from his barn against his wife's wishes and is plagued by a series of misfortunes. She begs him to allow her to restore the symbol to ward away evil but he refuses to subscribe to such superstitious nonsense. He takes gravely ill and is lying on his deathbed when, one morning, he gets up no longer sick and opens the morning mail to find he has won the lottery. When he runs out to show her the check, thinking his string of bad luck was merely coincidence, he is shocked to find her...just finishing off the paint on the new good luck symbol decorating the barn.
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