Suspense #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFifty-two pages of chills await in this May 1951 anthology from Marvel, promising tales of missing heads, dangerous phrases, mysterious dolls, and walking ghosts. Sol Brodsky's cover sets the tension perfectly: a caped, wide-brimmed figure in a purple coat pleads desperately — "You fools… Don't open that door!" — while a group of brave but oblivious young people below clutch a lantern and press forward toward an ominous spiral structure swarming with bats. Don Rico handles the lead story "Don't Open This Door!" and the cover's urgent face-off between warning and reckless courage makes it easy to see why this anthology was calculated to keep readers in suspense.
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A man buys a painting at an auction which depicts damnable tortures and wonders why he bought it since it is so gruesome. His wife dislikes it so he puts it in the attic, but when he glances at the picture again, it appears as though one of the victims is outstretching her hand to him. When his hand brushes the canvas he finds himself pulled into the painting with the monsters and their victim. When his wife approaches the canvas with a knife, he reaches out to her and she finds herself pulled into the painting as he is released. Grateful to be out of the painting, he picks up the knife and destroys it, too late realizing that his wife was trapped inside.
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