Where Monsters Dwell #23
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Monster Hunts for Me!", Stan Lee and Steve Ditko deliver a quietly unsettling twist on the familiar setup of a moviegoing crowd, turning a simple evening at the cinema into something far stranger. As the final credits roll, the perspective shifts to reveal the entire scene—complete with the audience and the film they’ve just watched—was actually unfolding on Mars, with Earth a distant, silent presence in the night sky. The cover, by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers, captures the eerie atmosphere with striking, otherworldly detail.
In "The Monster Hunts for Me!", a woman living in a boarding house finds herself caught in a chilling game when an old man confesses he’s being hunted by a shape-shifting alien—only to die suddenly of a heart attack. The twist? She’s the alien, and his death means she no longer has to carry out the killing.
In "Inside the Flying Saucer!", a crowd watches a film of an alien invasion, their reactions mirroring the drama on screen—until the lights come up and they begin to leave. As they gather their coats, the camera pulls back to reveal the Earth hanging in the Martian night sky, turning the entire experience into something far stranger than fiction.
In "The Hooded Horror!" from Where Monsters Dwell #23 (1973), a gang boss whose face is always hidden beneath a hood stokes unease among his men—until one of them, driven by morbid curiosity, strikes when the boss is asleep. What he finds beneath the hood is a revelation that turns fear into something far more unsettling.
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