Uncanny Tales #45
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis mid-1950s Atlas anthology delivers a cover that grabs you immediately: a man tumbles helplessly into a swirling, blood-red pit while two shadowy silhouettes loom above in a circle of pale light, watching — or waiting. Carl Burgos's cover art wrings genuine dread from that simple, vertiginous composition, the tagline "Inside the Pit! Lurked What???" leaving just enough to the imagination. With "all brand-new tales" inside, including "The Hand!" illustrated by Herb Familton, this ten-cent issue is a fine snapshot of Atlas's knack for compact, unsettling horror.
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A doctor treats a wounded patient with green blood, but the patient dies and the blood color reverts to red. After he leaves the clinic, two people tail him but he manages to give them the slip and follow them back to a house where he learns they are mutants. A fire starts, and he escapes, but he suffers a cut during the experience and learns that he is a mutant as well.
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