This Magazine Is Haunted #5
In *This Magazine Is Haunted* #5 (1952), writer Earl Hammer Jr. and artist Myron Fass deliver a chilling tale with "The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp!"—a story where four carnival workers seeking cheaper lodgings stumble upon an abandoned house whispered to be haunted by a vengeful spirit. With eerie atmosphere and unsettling tension, the tale unfolds in a remote, oppressive setting, where the past refuses to stay buried. The cover, by Sheldon Moldoff, captures the dread with a haunting, shadowed figure emerging from the swamp’s mist.
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A small carnival pitches it's tents in a small town where the cheapest room is $5 per night. Four men from the carnival go looking for cheaper lodgings and find an old abandoned house that a local man says is haunted by the ghost of a man who killed his friends with a hammer. The four men try to stay in the house and the murder begins.
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