While I'm working on a larger / weirder post arriving Wednesday, let's take a speedy quick trip into the supernatural with this frightening, 3 page "Uncanny Experiences" filler tale, via the April - May 1953 issue of Out of the Night #8. I have a "hunch" that you'll enjoy the visuals here by ever reliable ACG all-pro, Art Gates. Now buckle up for what's destined to be one helluva bumpy ride-- YAAGH!!
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As someone who's only ever driven right hand drive vehicles, I like Dr Vanderholt's right hand drive car driving on the left of the street..........in France. Was this tale supposed to be set in England and it was changed after the artwork was done?
Good lord, why do I even bother with this blog anymore…
You keep up this blog because it is the best blog ever, period!
As to the story-
I like the art in this one, it reminded me of the art found in Gold Key ghost stories, well drawn, sort of like illustration type art.
The story itself is a one pager spread out into three so the story can 'breathe', so key details are not condensed into one panel.
In this story, it seems that four townspeople met their end at the hands, or stones, of the ghostly sorcerer, due to the four cries of agony in the night. If the sorcerer eliminates all of the descendants of those who stoned him, then the curse will have to end too, unless he starts taking the lives of newcomers to this town.
This story might have worked a little better if the ghostly sorcerer only struck once a decade or two, striking every year would lead Pont De Lussan to become deserted, or turn into a, ghost town.
A quick search on the net reveals there is a town named Lussan in France, but no Pont De Lussan
Most of us have heard of the term 'the last roundup', we never stop to consider the hearse to be 'the last car ride'----and you can't even ride shotgun (a little graveside humor).
Thanks as always for these spooky, chilling posts.
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