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Ryan

You're a real maniac! The way you were acting you'd think you were holding up the building!

Burt Wallace

I was!

Appearing in "The Werewolf of Wilmach!"

Featured Characters:

  • Kessel (First appearance; dies)

Supporting Characters:

  • Heineman (Banker) (First appearance; dies)
  • Fang (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

  • Karl (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Peter (First appearance; corpse, skeleton or other remains)
  • Numerous unnamed citizens of Wilmach

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Synopsis for "The Werewolf of Wilmach!"

A man plans to rob the banker of a village that believes it is being subject to werewolf attacks. When the banker interrupts him opening the safe, he stabs the banker, but not before he sees the werewolf tattoo on his arm and cries out. When the villagers gather around him he tells them about the werewolf tattoo and dies. The man gets the idea of capturing the village idiot and tattooing a werewolf on his arm so as to pin the blame for the killing on him. He succeeds in doing this, but then the idiot transforms into a real werewolf and kills him.

Appearing in "I Can't Move"

Featured Characters:

  • Burt Wallace (First appearance) (Apparent death)

Supporting Characters:

  • Officer Ryan (First appearance) (Apparent death)

Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Murderer

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Victim (First appearance; dies)
  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Unnamed Sergeant (Mentioned)
    • Two unnamed police officers (Apparent death)

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Synopsis for "I Can't Move"

Three police officers drag away a man from standing at the corner of a building and one of the officers says "The way you're carrying on you'd think you were holding up the building!" to which the man replies "I was!" as the building topples over.

Appearing in "Voodoo Books"

Featured Characters:

  • Phineas Marriner (First appearance; dies)

Supporting Characters:

  • Milson (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Phineas Marriner's Chauffeur (First appearance)
  • Fates (Mentioned)
  • Count von Blaufox (Named only)

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Items:

  • Ye Spelles of Magicke (First appearance)

Synopsis for "Voodoo Books"

Wealthy business man, Phineas Marriner, forces an old book merchant out of his business in order to obtain the books inside that he believes to be magical.

Upon opening one of the books and ignoring a warning the person reading must be pure hearted he was killed by a stack of books that fell from a broken shelf. The odd thing is that Phineas was found with his will in his hand that gave all his wealth to charity and all the business he owned to the people renting them, including Milson, the book seller he forced out.

Appearing in "Tomb with a View"

Featured Characters:

  • George Fenton (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Ghoul
  • Unnamed Man (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
  • Numerous unnamed mourners

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Synopsis for "Tomb with a View"

A grave robber decides to head for India where there will be less competition and they leave their dead out in the open on four pillars. A flock of vultures descends upon him.

Appearing in "Drive of Death"

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Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Man (First appearance; dies)

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Synopsis for "Drive of Death"

A hit and run driver is picked up by the ghost of the man he killed and driven to a watery grave.

Appearing in "The Hiding Place!"

Featured Characters:

  • Neil Ward (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Arlene Cordel (First appearance) (Apparent death)

Antagonists:

  • Verna Ward (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Dog
  • Eddie (First appearance; behind the scenes)

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Items:

  • Neil Ward's Reducing Serum

Synopsis for "The Hiding Place!"

Neil is having an affair with his assistant and when his wife is about to catch them together Neil suggests to the assistant that she use his new shrinking serum to hide in a glass. Neil returns his wife home from the laboratory, but when he returns to restore the assistant to regular size he finds one of his frat buddies has borrowed the glass for a beer party.

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