Historias Fantásticas #4
"El fatídico dado" delivers a chilling sci-fi twist in this 1958 gem from Historias Fantásticas #4, where a gambler’s chance encounter with a mysterious man and his otherworldly dice spirals into a night of escalating dread. Written by George Kashdan and illustrated by Bernard Baily, the story unfolds with eerie precision as Harvey Hacker’s curiosity turns to terror when the dice begin to grow—only to realize the true danger lies in his own shrinking world. Leonard Starr’s striking cover captures the story’s unsettling tone, making this a standout entry in the early Latin American horror anthology.
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Harvey Hacker meets a fellow gambler who has made his own dice from a meteor and with which he cannot lose. Following him, Hacker is able to snatch one when the other gambler crashes his car outside an atomic station. Planning to analyze the cube later, Hacker finds that it is apparently getting larger and larger through the night, nearly crushing him in his own house. But when scientists arrive from the atomic station, Hacker realizes it is he and his house that have been shrinking due to the combination of the radiation and meteor the cube was made of.
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