Gwandanaland Comics #2305

This Gwandanaland Comics collection brings together a second volume of Ace Comics' golden-age horror anthology The Hand of Fate, preserving those eerie tales in a handsome reprint edition. The cover showcases a reproduced Hand of Fate front piece featuring a frightened woman in a red dress fleeing through a dark, windswept scene while a cloaked, hooded figure pursues her — a speech bubble warning her that "there are no shortcuts in life" and that she must "pay for her folly." It's a wonderfully atmospheric slice of mid-century suspense art that captures exactly the moody, fate-tempting spirit fans of pre-code horror anthologies will appreciate.