The shadows, my love... the shadows always surround us! Can we not leave this house... this life... and make our own bright world? 
- —Clea
Appearing in "They Walk by Night!"
Featured Characters:
- ⏴ Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) ⏵ (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Clea (Only in flashback)
- Wong (Only in flashback)
- Kenneth Ward (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- Undying Ones (First appearance)
- Creatures of the Night (First appearance; dies)
- "Kenneth Ward's Butler" (First appearance; dies)
- "Lars" (First appearance; dies)
- "Bodyguard" (First appearance; dies)
- Creatures of the Night (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- H.P. Lovecraft (Referenced)
- Agamotto (Referenced)
- Nightmare (Mentioned)
- Eternity (Only in flashback)
- Muhammad (Mentioned)
- Ikonn (Invoked)
- Watoomb (Invoked)
- Seraphim (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Faltine Hybrids (Only in flashback)
- Abstract Entities (Only in flashback)
- Demons
- Undying Ones (First appearance)
Locations:
- Earthspace (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- Greenwich Village (Only in flashback)
- Stephen Strange's Mansion (Only in flashback)
- Kenneth Ward's home
- Greenwich Village (Only in flashback)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Asia (Only in flashback)
- Himalayas (Only in flashback)
- Valley of the Undying Ones (Only in flashback) (Unnamed)
- Himalayas (Only in flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Nightmare World (Mentioned)
- Dark Dimension (Mentioned)
Items:
- Cloak of Levitation (Main story and flashback)
- Eye of Agamotto (Main story and flashback)
- Wand of Watoomb (Invoked)
- Idol of the Nameless One (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Spells
Synopsis for "They Walk by Night!"
One night when Doctor Strange receives a telegram asking for help from an old associate named Kenneth Ward, he is perplexed to see that it is addressed to "Stephen Sanders"; investigating he realizes that Eternity had changed reality so that Stephen's name was different, in order to protect his secret identity of Sorcerer Supreme.
Traveling to Kenneth's home, Stephen is shocked to find that Kenneth now has hired staff. Visiting his weak friend, Strange learns that while Kenneth was exploring the Himalayan mountain range, he found an idol of the Undying Ones and that he's been haunted and ill ever since. Realizing the "hired help" are really demons under the employ of the Undying Ones, Strange battles them and eventually kills them by exposing them to sunlight. The effort is too little too late, as Kenneth dies during the battle. However, Stephen vows to stop the Undying Ones' evil from polluting the earthly realm.
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
- This would be the final issue of the first Doctor Strange run, the series. At the time it was abruptly canceled because it could not sustain enough readership to continue publication. The loose ends of this plotline would be tied up in Sub-Mariner #22 and Incredible Hulk #126. Strange would not appear again until Marvel Feature #1.
