Haunt of Fear #18
"Pipe Down!" from Haunt of Fear #18 (1997) delivers a chilling twist on time and deception, courtesy of Ray Bradbury and Al Feldstein, with Jack Davis’s unmistakable art bringing the eerie carnival to life. When a man exploits a haunted ferris wheel’s power to reverse and advance time, he sets a sinister plan in motion—only to be outsmarted by two skeptical boys who know the truth. The story’s haunting premise, rendered in Davis’s dynamic pencils and inks and Severin’s evocative colors, culminates in a moment of surreal justice, all under Graham Ingels’s unsettling cover.
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Two boys witness a ferris wheel at a creepy carnival that can make time go forwards or backwards for the rider depending on which way the wheel spins. A man tries to take advantage of this by riding the wheel backwards 24 times until he is a 10 year boy and then posing as an orphan in order to find and steal a kindly old woman's money who has taken him in. He plans to then ride the wheel forwards 24 times so no one will ever find the culprit. The boys tell the woman, but are not believed, so they wait until the man is on the ferris wheel and sends it into the future....with amazing results.
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