Tales from the Tomb #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Curious Coffin," a 1974 tale from Eerie Publications, optometrist Harry Lenz receives a pair of mysterious spectacles from Satan himself—only to discover they grant him the power to see through walls and read minds. After a shocking act of violence, he flees to Europe, reinvents himself as the ruthless Herman Greid, and builds a fortune through extortion and blackmail. But when he's duped by the enigmatic Prince Natas and Princess Sedah, his empire collapses, his glasses are stolen, and he’s left blind—only to learn the truth about his own fate. The story, illustrated with eerie precision by Alberto Macagno, is a chilling exploration of ambition, deception, and the price of power.
In "The Curious Coffin," an eccentric old man drawing public attention for his morbid fascination with death finds his experiment disrupted when a pair of criminals attempt to rob him. Trapped in his own macabre setup, the duo soon realize they’ve become unwilling subjects in a chilling game of survival—while the old man, poised between life and death, waits to see who will break first.
In "A Tomb of Ice," three mountain climbers and their guide, Oog, push toward Everest’s summit until a sudden storm unleashes a ghostly warning: the mountain will claim them if they press on. As two climbers and Oog fall to their deaths, the lone survivor, Sandra, staggers back to base camp—only to find her face aged beyond recognition.
In "Satan's Man," a desperate optometrist is given supernatural spectacles by a mysterious visitor who claims to be Satan himself. With the glasses, he gains the power to see through walls and read minds—powers he uses to manipulate and destroy his way to wealth and a new identity in Europe. But when a pair of cunning revolutionaries, Prince Natas and Princess Sedah, lure him into a dangerous scheme, his fortune and vision both vanish, leaving him blind and at the mercy of the very being who gave him his power.
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↩ Reprints Haunted Thrills #1 (1952), Strange Fantasy #6 (1953), Haunted Thrills #14 (1954), Strange Galaxy #10 (1971), Terror Tales #3 (1972)
Reprinted in Horror Tales #4 (1976), Weird #2 (1979), Terrors of Dracula #3 (1980)
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