Witchcraft #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Man Who Bribed Death," newspaper correspondent Robert Avery, facing a terminal heart condition, makes a chilling pact with Death itself—killing others before their time to extend his own. With the grim bargain in motion, Avery journeys to perilous places like war-torn Korea and Red China, where life is fleeting and death is constant. His final attempt to escape a plague-ridden city in a coffin may be the one gamble that finally costs him everything. Art by A. C. Hollingsworth, with cover by the same, this 1952 Avon classic delivers a haunting tale of desperation and consequence.
Robert Avery, a newspaper correspondent with a failing heart, makes a desperate pact with Death itself—exchange his soul for extra days, one life at a time. He ventures into war zones and plague-ridden cities, where death is a constant companion, but even the devil has limits.
Dr. Emil Toller, a man consumed by envy, sees his chance when Jack Parks is injured in a car crash. With a surgeon’s precision and a jealous heart, he alters Parks’ face—then watches in horror as the man takes his own life. Now haunted by the image of the disfigured man he created, Toller begins to fear he’s losing himself to the very face he stole.
Grace and Walter Brook, driven by greed, murder their wealthy aunt Annie and dispose of her body—along with her beloved cat. Months later, unsettling events begin: Walter is clawed by something unseen, and Grace starts to change in ways no one can explain.
In a chilling tale from the pages of Witchcraft #4, John Stark—accused of a string of arson attacks—claims he’s not to blame, but possessed by a fire-dwelling monster he can’t control. After his suicide in prison, the creature he warned of finally escapes, leaving behind a trail of smoke and dread.
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Reprinted in Weird #1 (1970), Witches Tales #1 (1970)
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