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Quote1 This, my dear Dr. Wallach really is the monster created in the late 1700's by Victor Frankenstein! And with it-- and our own considerable skills and knowledge, we will unlock the secrets of human life!! Quote2
Derek McDowell

Appearing in "They Might Be Monsters"

Featured Characters:

  • Paul Du Chaillu (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed gorillas

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed scientists

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Synopsis for "They Might Be Monsters"

In the Congo, explorer Paul Du Chaillu sees a gorilla for the first time.

Appearing in "The Classic Monster!"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Other Characters:

  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Unnamed Sergeant
    • Numerous unnamed police officers
  • Unnamed Carnival Owner (Mentioned)
  • Tisha (Mentioned)
  • God (Invoked)
  • Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Mentioned)
  • Unnamed Man (First appearance; dies)
  • Unnamed Woman (First appearance; dies)

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Synopsis for "The Classic Monster!"

The neuroscience student recovers the body of the creature from the police and returns with it to his mentor. He shows the older scientist, who reveals that he is dying of cancer, how he can rouse the creature by applying enough electricity to its brain to return it to normal body temperature. The creature's brain has suffered damage, so the student gasses his mentor and transfers the older man's brain into the creature. The monster revives and flies into a rage. Before he strangles his student he demands to know if he was really so stupid as to believe that he would want to live out the rest of his life in the body of a monster. He resolves to repair the damage to the monster's brain and find a more suitable body to transfer his brain into.

Appearing in "The Hands!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Adventures into Terror #14

Featured Characters:

  • Gary Birch (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed Lobster-Men

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Carnival
    • Unnamed Carnival Barker
  • Dr. Emanuel
  • Atlas Jewelry Co. (Name only)

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Synopsis for "The Hands!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Adventures into Terror #14

A man with a pair of claws for hands pays for an operation to give him normal hands and on his twenty-fifth birthday, turns into a lobster with a pair of human hands.

Appearing in "Our Martian Heritage"

  • Appearances not yet listed

Synopsis for "Our Martian Heritage"

  • Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "Web of Hate"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  •  Chak the Wing-Man
  •  Princess Heru

Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Noltoi (First appearance; dies)

Other Characters:

  • Godzilla (Mentioned)
  • Technics Guild (Mentioned)
  • Lu-Pov (Only in flashback)
  • Phra (Only in flashback)
  • Ar-Hap (Only in flashback)

Races and Species:

  • Humans
  • Martians
    • Mutant Wing-Men (Main story and flashback)
    • Hither People (Main story and flashback)
      • Golden Ones (Main story and flashback)
    • Red Lizardmen (Only in flashback)
  • Ordlups (Main story and flashback)
  • Dinosaurs (Mentioned)
  • Noltoi / Spider-Swarm (Main story and flashback)
  • Lizards
  • Demons (Referenced)

Locations:

Items:

  • Amulet of Understanding

Synopsis for "Web of Hate"

  • Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "A Monster Reborn!"

Featured Characters:

  • Rabbi Samuel Grellman (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Aaron (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed members of the congregation
  • God (Invoked)
  • Eli Horwitz (Mentioned) (Deceased)
  • Solomon (Mentioned)
  • Numerous unnamed golems

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Items:

  • Kabbalah
  • Key of Solomon (Mentioned)

Synopsis for "A Monster Reborn!"

An aging Rabbi Samuel Grellmann gives a service to a small congregation on the start of the jewish sabbath. When he's finished he makes a comment to a member of his faith about how the old ways are dying and that soon no one will come to hear him speak and that he perhaps should have perished long ago. Aaron a member of the congregation takes it upon himself to try and revitalize the numbers of the synagogue. He starts by looking through ancient tomes in the Rabbi's study. There he finds the Kabbalah and learns about the creation of golems. He takes this knowledge and plans to use it so he sneaks into the night and arrives at a police morgue where he steals some body parts for the golem's creation. He returns and puts together the body of the golem and marks his forehead with "YHVH" the code for the unspeakable name of god.

When the Rabbi next returns Aaron excitedly tells him how packed the temple is and when he shows the Rabbi he can scarcely believe it. Rabbi Grellman walks to the front of the large crowed seated and prepares to start the service when he notices the entire congregation is marked with "YHVH". At first he's stricken with fear but then relaxes and comes to the realization that these creatures were created by god as well. So the Rabbi pulls out his scrolls and begins service.

Appearing in "The Monster Maker: A Review of Ray Harryhausen's Film Fantasy Scrapbook"

  • A text article discussing real world characters or events, as such no conventional appearances

Synopsis for "The Monster Maker: A Review of Ray Harryhausen's Film Fantasy Scrapbook"

  • Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "The Killers!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Adventures into Weird Worlds #10

Featured Characters:

  • Steve Danning
  • Mary Crosby

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed Professor

Antagonists:

  • Killers

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Synopsis for "The Killers!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Adventures into Weird Worlds #10

Man tries to control the population numbers of a strange creature from the lake, and by poisoning them off, they realize that they have destroyed the species that was controlling the numbers of an even worse creature.

Appearing in "To Love, Honor, Cherish... 'Til Death!"

Featured Characters:

  • Sara Conroy (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Eric Conroy (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Nurse (First appearance; dies)
  • NYPD
    • Numerous unnamed police officers
  • Morris (First appearance; dies)
  • Lord/God (Mentioned)

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Synopsis for "To Love, Honor, Cherish... 'Til Death!"

  • Synopsis not yet written

Appearing in "In Memoriam: Lon Chaney Jr."

  • A text article discussing real world characters or events, as such no conventional appearances

Synopsis for "In Memoriam: Lon Chaney Jr."

An obituary celebrating the life of Lon Chaney Jr. a horror icon and renown actor that passed away.

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