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Quote1 Be careful when you steal a maniac's girl friend! It might start you on a deadly journey... Quote2
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Appearing in "The Scarecrow"

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Supporting Characters:

  • Occult Shopkeeper

Other Characters:

  • Advertisement Director
  • Jim
  • Millie
  • Millie's Boyfriend

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  • Potion of Power
  • Potion of Power Antidote

Synopsis for "The Scarecrow"

Tim Blake finds a steady living playing a pathetic weakling in a series of ads ("Don't be like him! Use Vigomin and be a man!"). Frustrated by his lack of success in the dating world, he visits a magic shop and purchases a strength potion for fifty cents. The eccentric proprietor offers him an antidote, but it costs $100 and Tim reasons that he'd never need it anyway. The potion turns Tim into a Hercules, and he goes around beating up his rivals and bullying women into dating him. However, he soon learns why he should have bought the antidote, as he quickly grows so massive that the Earth cannot hold his weight and he plummets down into the planet's core.

Appearing in "The Pact"

Featured Characters:

  • Mr. Henry Conrad

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Other Characters:

  • Aunt Agatha
  • Branders Conrad
  • Morrison
  • Linster

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Synopsis for "The Pact"

Henry Conrad was writing a book on witchcraft; he wrote about how his ancestor Branders Conrad was accused of practicing witchcraft in the very same house. Henry was asked by the publishers, Morrison and Linster to write a book about witchcraft and wanted to find evidence that people believed that his ancestor was a witch. Hours later, a man calling himself the "Uninvited Guest" approached him and claimed that he was Satan himself. Henry, believing that that the man was joking, told the guest about his ancestor who was accused of witchcraft. The Uninvited Guest took Henry to June 15, 1693, where the Uninvited Guest's past self, who was, in fact, Satan, was making an agreement with Branders Conrad, granting him the ability to see the future. After Branders had learned that he would have a table full of gold and a very beautiful woman as a wife, he began to regret his agreement. The Uninvited Guest told Henry that people were hungry for power and they did not think before summoning him. The next morning, Henry woke up and saw that he had finished writing about his ancestor on the typewriter, then he went outside and saw the print of a hoof next to each shoe mark.

Appearing in "Don't Look!"

Featured Characters:

  • Harold Whitney (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Madman (Future version of Harold Whitney)
  • Unnamed Secretary

Other Characters:

  • Unidentified Police Department (Mentioned)

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  • Magic Mirror

Synopsis for "Don't Look!"

A raving madman bursts into the office of a patent attorney attempting to interest him in patenting a magic mirror that reveals how old people will look in ten years if you merely think of them. If you look into the mirror yourself, it will show you how old you will be in five years. The attorney calls the authorities to haul away the lunatic, but not before the receptionist gets a look into the mirror and is disappointed to see she appears as a hag. They try thinking of other people and the mirror actually works. The attorney lets in the men with the white coats to haul away the man in his office gloating now he won't have to share the profits, but is horrified when he glances into the mirror himself and sees the face of the lunatic who has just been removed.

Appearing in "How Clumsy Can Ya Be"

Featured Characters:

  • Hal Burns (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Yogi Fakir (First appearance; dies)

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Synopsis for "How Clumsy Can Ya Be"

A clumsy magician allows himself to actually be sawed in half.

Appearing in "Thru the Door"

Featured Characters:

  • Carl Black (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Joseph "Killer" Kutler (First appearance)
  • Myra Kutler (First appearance)

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Synopsis for "Thru the Door"

A boxer's manager tries to seduce the boxer's girl when the man catches the two of them. They flee into a locked room where the girl transforms into a vampire and the man realizes he has his choice of deaths: he can open the door and be torn apart by the powerful, enraged boxer, or stay in the room and have his blood drained by the vampire.

Appearing in "The Hiding Place"

Featured Characters:

  • Ann Newton (First appearance)

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Antagonists:

  • Jeb Newton (First appearance; dies)

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Synopsis for "The Hiding Place"

Jeb Newton is hosting a masquerade party at his house, but he is not in a festive mood when he discovers his wife Ann in an embrace with his best friend Paul. Jeb attacks them with a knife, but Ann hits him with a lead pipe and kills him. Ann comes close to panic, but Paul calms her down by promising to hide the body while she goes out and distracts the guests. Ann does so, and later goes out to see a figure dressed in Paul's distinctive Tin Woodman costume standing under a tree. Assuming that it's Paul, she takes him inside, but soon receives a phone call from Paul himself, stating that he ran off after finding a good hiding place for the body. Terrified, Ann turns around and sees the figure remove it's helmet, revealing Jeb's face...

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