Terror Tales Album #1
"Horoscope Phenomenon or Witch Queen of Ancient Sumeria?" delivers a chilling supernatural tale from 1976, where a pharmacist’s dismissal of his assistant sparks a vengeful return from beyond the grave. Written by Leo Dorfman and illustrated by Art Saaf with inks by Mike Esposito, the story unfolds with eerie precision as a dead man’s ghost manipulates medicine and vengeance in a shop turned to dust. The haunting atmosphere is perfectly captured in the cover by Bernie Wrightson, whose distinctive style brings a gothic dread to the issue’s mysterious premise.
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When pharmacist Anton Drucker fires his assistant Johann Kant for giving away medicine, Kant suffers a fatal heart attack. Later, Kant's ghost returns and mixes a special prescription for a woman, Drucker investigates and finds everything in his shop turned to dust.
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