Uncanny Tales #180
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Golden Curse," a fantasy writer finds himself at the center of an otherworldly experiment when alien visitors arrive, seeking to understand human emotions so they can blend in undetected. As he guides them through the spectrum of feeling, he grapples with the weight of his choices—especially when teaching ambition and power, hoping they’ll be their own undoing. Art Peddy’s expressive interior art brings the eerie intimacy of the encounter to life, while Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico’s cover captures the story’s haunting, otherworldly tone.
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A fantasy writer is visited by aliens who wish him to teach them human emotions so that they can observe humans undetected. He is afraid if they learn the history of people, they will destroy civilization so that space travel does not threaten them. The last two emotions he teaches them are ambition and power, hoping that they will destroy themselves.
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