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Cover: Pete Morisi

Sinister Tales #174

Jan 1980 · Alan Class · 0.20 GBP
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In "The Evil That Is Evila [Special Case 0002]," a man stumbles upon a forgotten machine in his grandfather’s attic—still running after eighty years—designed to trap beings from another dimension in his hometown. Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Carl Burgos, this eerie tale unfolds as he tries to blackmail the descendants of those trapped, only to vanish when he attempts to prove his power. The cover by Pete Morisi captures the unsettling tone of a story where the past is never truly past.

Contains 9 stories
The Evil That Is Evila [Special Case 0002]
20 pp · Superhero
Thunderbolt [Peter Cannon]
The Atmosphere
3 pp · Math & Science
The Threat!
3 pp · Science Fiction

In "The Threat!", Jo stumbles upon a forgotten machine in his grandfather’s attic—still running after eighty years—designed to trap people from another dimension in their town. When he tries to blackmail the descendants of those trapped by threatening to shut it down, he doesn’t realize his own mother was one of them… and the machine has a far more personal consequence than he ever imagined.

Ju-Ju
3 pp
The Night of March 5th
4 pp · Science Fiction

In "The Night of March 5th," Jo finds himself caught in a temporal loop after stealing a time machine that advances him one year into the future. When the people he knows react with dread upon seeing him, he flips the device to go back—only to discover his own death is already a certainty. The story unfolds with quiet dread, as Jo races against a timeline he can't escape.

It Grows On Trees
4 pp · Fantasy
Those Who Disappear
4 pp
Mister Mason's Strange Problem
4 pp · Fantasy
Disaster in Tibet!
3 pp

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Full credits

artist, inker Carl Burgos
cover pencils, inks Pete Morisi

Reprints

↩ Reprints Uncanny Tales #31 (1955), Uncanny Tales #52 (1957), Strange Tales of the Unusual #10 (1957), Adventure into Mystery #8 (1957), Forbidden Worlds #67 (1958), Thunderbolt #51 (1966)

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