Going way back to the November 1949 issue of Marvel Tales #94 with a slithery 6-page supernatural shocker that'll leave you gasping and grasping for more!
Going way back to the November 1949 issue of Marvel Tales #94 with a slithery 6-page supernatural shocker that'll leave you gasping and grasping for more!
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William Castle must have read this one before doing House on Haunted Hill (I jest but there is a similar and eerily effective rope trick in that one.)
I like how they don't jump to any conclusions. The possessed rope coming out of the chimney where they skeleton fell out? It *might* be the executioner but we don't want to be too hasty!
I love this one. The living rope is a great gag and works really well as a hard to destroy and threatening monster. The artwork is a little pedestrian but it works. It's a clever little horror story!
The caretaker is a pretty good red herring.
It reminds me slightly of a dark comedy THRILLER episode called "Masquerade," where Tom Poston and Elizabeth Montgomery are a stranded couple, and John Carradine is a spooky home owner who's partly a red herring and partly not one.
Even without that story to compare it to, the caretaker in this one gives a real John Carradine vibe.
Man I love the panel where Duncan punches the spectral rope. That's chutzpah!
How scared of the rain must a couple be to prefer sitting through the night with a new corpse in an old dark house haunted by a murderous hangman's noose? Yeah, I'll be waiting in the car.
I love these ancient Timely horror comics.
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