—Jack CourtlandHuh? You saying something to me, maestro? Hold on a minute! I can't hear a word! I'm stone deaf without this thing! Always shut it off when I go to concerts! Wait'll I turn my hearing aid on!
Appearing in "The Hex!"
Featured Characters:
- Frank Hubbard (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Julia Hubbard (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Julia's Father (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Unnamed Man
- Unnamed Woman
- Unnamed Farmhand
- Dr. Edwin Rush (First appearance)
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Synopsis for "The Hex!"
A man removes hex signs from his barn against his wife's wishes and is plagued by a series of misfortunes. She begs him to allow her to restore the symbol to ward away evil but he refuses to subscribe to such superstitious nonsense. He takes gravely ill and is lying on his deathbed when, one morning, he gets up no longer sick and opens the morning mail to find he has won the lottery. When he runs out to show her the check, thinking his string of bad luck was merely coincidence, he is shocked to find her...just finishing off the paint on the new good luck symbol decorating the barn.
Appearing in "The Voice in the Shell!"
Featured Characters:
- Ken Bayard (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Atlanteans
- Several unnamed Atlanteans
Other Characters:
- Unidentified Sponge Company
- Two unnamed employees
- Cathy (Ken's Niece) (Mentioned)
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Synopsis for "The Voice in the Shell!"
A diver finds a shell that serves as a communication device for the evil beings of Atlantis.
Appearing in "The Invaders"
Featured Characters:
- Captain John Carr (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Nancy Carr (First appearance) (John's Sister-in-Law)
Other Characters:
- United States Air Force (First appearance)
- Unnamed Lieutenant
- General Earl Haverly (First appearance)
- United States Army (First appearance)
- Ben Carr (First appearance) (John's Brother)
- John's Nephew (First appearance)
- United Nations
- Several unnamed members
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Synopsis for "The Invaders"
A pilot uses a mirage of alien spaceships to convince the nations of the world to band together.
Appearing in "The Menace of the Little Men!"
Featured Characters:
- Mr. Carter (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Mountain Lord Lodge
- Andrews (First appearance)
- Six unnamed members
Antagonists:
- Unidentified Aliens
- Three unnamed aliens
Races and Species:
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Locations:
- Milky Way
- Earth
- United States of America
- Mountain Lord Lodge (First appearance)
- United States of America
- Earth
- Unidentified Galaxy (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "The Menace of the Little Men!"
Aliens land at an isolated cabin and tell the people that one of them will be selected to serve as a model for their robotics project. A man doesn't want to go so he manages to convince the aliens that he is weak, stupid and a thief but the plan backfires because the aliens select him as an example of what not to build into the robots.
Appearing in "None Are So Blind!"
Featured Characters:
- Guy Farr (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- Clark (First appearance)
- Unidentified Tribe (Main story and flashback)
- Several unnamed members (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed sailors (Main story and flashback)
Races and Species:
Realities:
- Earth-616 (Main story and flashback)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Atlantic Ocean (Main story and flashback)
- Caribbean Sea (Main story and flashback)
- Martinique (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Valley of the Giants (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Martinique (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Caribbean Sea (Main story and flashback)
- Atlantic Ocean (Main story and flashback)
Synopsis for "None Are So Blind!"
Explorers look for a hidden valley of giants, but the giants don't want to be discovered so they treat the explorers with a growth potion and convince them that they are normal people. The explorers leave and the growth potion wears off so they never discover that they had found what they sought.
Appearing in "The Jinn"
Featured Characters:
- Paul Jordan (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Taxi Driver
Other Characters:
- Unnamed Jinni
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Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- Salem, Massachusetts (Mentioned)
- United States of America
Items:
- Mysteries of the Occult (Book) (First appearance)
Synopsis for "The Jinn"
Appearing in "Those in a Trance"
Featured Characters:
- Serge Mazerik (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Unidentified Police Department
- Detective Lieutenant Jack Courtland (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Mozart (First appearance) (Dog)
- Armand (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed party-goers
- Mrs. Courtland (First appearance)
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Synopsis for "Those in a Trance"
A composer finds that he has written a piece of music that has the power to place people into a hypnotic trance and resolves to rob the audience at his next performance. He fails to reckon with the detective who dislikes music, but gets dragged to these things by his wife, and turns off his hearing aid.
Notes
Publication Notes[]
- "The Hex" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills #13.
- "Those in a Trance" is reprinted in Crypt of Shadows #14.