Haunt of Fear #25
In "The New Arrival," a chilling tale from Haunt of Fear #25 (1954), a man’s fascination with a striking new office girl spirals into a deadly mistake—though not the one you might expect. Written by Carl Wessler and brought to life with eerie precision by Jack Kamen on art and inks, with Marie Severin’s haunting colors and Jim Wroten’s sharp lettering, the story unfolds through the Old Witch’s unsettling narration. The cover by Ghastly captures the dread with a perfectly framed, unsettling image that hints at the horror within.
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The Old Witch tells us a story with two endings. The first ending relates what would have happened to the protagonist if he had pursued a relationship with a new office girl who turns out to be a ghoul using human meat to feed her mother's cats, but the old witch tells us that's not what actually happened. What actually happened was he was so taken with her beauty he mistakenly tumbled out of an open window 20 stories to a very easy death while being cursed for his stupidity by the girl.
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