Tales from the Crypt #3
"Grounds... for Horror!" delivers a chilling twist on the classic magician’s trick in this standout 1979 tale from Al Feldstein, with George Evans' eerie interior art and Jack Kamen’s sharp inks bringing the dread to life. The story follows a traveling magician and his wife in India, drawn to a mysterious girl and her seemingly alive rope—only to find their greed leads to a terrifying reckoning. Jack Davis’ iconic cover, both macabre and mesmerizing, perfectly captures the story’s unsettling tone.
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A magician and his wife are visiting India looking for new acts to perform when he spies a girl with a trick rope that rises into the air when she plays a pipe and can be climbed upon. He offers to buy the rope from her but she refuses. His wife invites her back to the hotel room where the two plot to kill her and steal the rope. He strangles the girl and the rope still rises into the air when the pipe is played. His wife climbs the rope but disappears at the top of it, and moments later, the dismembered parts of her corpse fall from the air. The unattached rope wraps itself around the man's neck and holds him swaying off the ground.
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