Madhouse #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeAn anthology of humorous stories featuring various comedic scenarios: "Peter in the Pen," in which a man named Peter living in the Big House wishes upon a star for excitement and gains magical powers that cause chaos; a domestic comedy involving a husband's new rain cloud and a wife's experimental home permanent with special glue that causes mishaps; and a workplace farce where a radio broadcaster uses fake psychic predictions to impress his boss, only to have them inexplicably come true, forcing him to rush to the station to prevent the predictions from actually occurring. The issue also includes advertisements for science fiction book club memberships and other promotional materials.
When Shilock Homes receives a desperate midnight call from the Commissioner claiming foul play, he races through a pea-soup fog to Scotland Yard only to discover the man has been murdered—and a shrunken head left behind as the only clue. Following a trail of footprints through London's seediest corners, Homes interrogates a woman named Sara Mud and learns the gruesome trophy belongs to Basil the Gyp, a carnival operator in the town of Twitter on the Tweed. But when Homes tracks down his suspect and hauls him back to the scene, he finds the body has vanished entirely, leaving him with more questions than answers.
Peter's life in the Big House takes a miraculous turn when a falling star grants him an impossible wish—the power to fly. With his newfound magical abilities and an ankle anchor that proves no match for star-dust, Peter escapes his confines and sets his sights on reuniting with Gertie, a certain turtle-dove living in a penthouse across town. But when Peter's bird-brained schemes collide with old rivals and confused cops, this jailbird discovers that love and magic make for one wild, unpredictable flight.
Emily Ghost opens her mansion doors to teach proper haunting techniques to Charlie and his werewolf friend, who are struggling to frighten people away from an old property. As Emily demonstrates the finer points of chain-rattling, moaning, and spooking etiquette, an unexpected group of newlyweds seeking shelter from the rain becomes the perfect test case for her students' newfound skills. Things take a comedic turn when the lesson plan goes gloriously off the rails.
Uncle Featherby, the television weatherman with a reputation for questionable predictions, faces a day of chaos when his forecast of fair weather goes spectacularly wrong—and his wife discovers exactly how he's been coming up with his forecasts when she stumbles upon him at the station. What unfolds is a madcap collision of on-air mishaps, domestic fury, and a weather-making contraption that turns the broadcast into complete pandemonium.
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