Historias Fantásticas #7
In "Los cuatro hilos del destino," a cunning fraudster named Wygand Cornish preys on grieving owners by faking the deaths of rare animals, only to return them after selling lifelike statues in their place. When a subtle flaw in one of his sculptures betrays the ruse, his elaborate scheme begins to unravel. Art by Mort Meskin brings the eerie, meticulous deception to life, while Bill Ely’s cover captures the story’s mysterious tension.
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Wygand Cornish fakes the deaths of valuable animals, creates statues of the animals for their owners, then replaces the statues with the real things in order to collect money from the grateful owners. But his plot is discovered when he makes a statue not quite as accurate as it needed to be.
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