Inner Sanctum: Tales of Mystery, Horror & Suspense #[nn]
"Death of a Doll" is a chilling tale from Inner Sanctum: Tales of Mystery, Horror & Suspense #nn (2012), a standout entry in the series' long tradition of eerie, suspense-driven stories. Written and illustrated by Ernie Colon—handling every aspect from pencils to inks to letters—this issue follows Joe, a man haunted by guilt after stealing a wallet from a corpse, only to learn the man was a cataleptic, frozen in death-like stillness. When Joe hears the body has been buried, he races to the graveyard, driven by a desperate need to prevent a terrible suffocation. The cover by Ernie Colon perfectly captures the story’s creeping dread.
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Joe steals the wallet from a dead man, but is mortified to discover a card in the wallet identifying the man as a cataleptic! When he hears the "dead" man has been buried he breaks into the graveyard, determined to dig the man up before he suffocates.
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