Strange Tales #29
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Witchcraft!", a man stranded deep underground makes a desperate choice to survive—only to realize too late that his co-pilot wasn’t human at all. As paranoia sets in and the drilling rig’s controls betray him, he’s forced to confront the eerie truth behind the man he thought he’d killed. Bill Savage’s stark art brings the claustrophobic tension to life, while Sol Brodsky and Carl Burgos deliver a haunting cover that captures the story’s unsettling mood. A 10-cent tale from 1954 that blends science fiction dread with a chilling twist.
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A man in a drilling rig plots to murder his co-pilot when he discovers only enough food for one man to return from their days long subterranean journey. After he executes an accident-like death that destroys the other man's body he notices that there are no return controls on the instrument panel. He gets a radio message informing him that his co-pilot was a robot containing the reverse controls for the drilling rig.
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