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The fool! He could have left anytime! But he never did have any brains or guts!

Jennifer "Jenny" Marlowe

Appearing in "Locked In!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Menace #11

Featured Characters:

  • Jennifer "Jenny" Marlowe (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Mr. Johnson
  • Bill Marlowe (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

  • Crandell Family (Ghost, soul or spirit)
    • Mr. Crandell (Ghost, soul or spirit)
    • Mrs. Crandell (Ghost, soul or spirit)
    • Numerous unnamed uncles and aunts (Ghost, soul or spirit)

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Former Wall Street Tycoon
  • Unnamed Charleston Society Debutante
  • Unnamed Man (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
  • Unnamed Man's Dog (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
  • Shipping Magnate (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
  • Shipping Magnate's Wife (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
  • Two Carmody sisters
  • Two unnamed hermits

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Synopsis for "Locked In!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Menace #11
A woman trails after her husband for twenty years because, after they murdered a family, he skipped out on her with the loot. She kills Bill, but then the spirits appear and keep her prisoner in a filthy hovel, just like all those hermits she interviewed for twenty years while searching for her husband.

Appearing in "Close Shave!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Spellbound #14

Featured Characters:

  • Crawford Cobbs (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Matilda Cobbs (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Priest
  • Matilda Cobbs' Mother (Mentioned)

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Synopsis for "Close Shave!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Spellbound #14
A shrew of a wife finds an electric razor annoying, so she demands her husband use a straight razor. She demands that he kiss her before he leaves for work, but each time he attempts to do so, she complains of beard stubble and sends him back into the bathroom to shave again. Ultimately, he cuts off his face with the straight razor.

Appearing in "The Hangman's Noose"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Adventures into Terror #12

Featured Characters:

  • Abner Slocum (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Apex Rope Company (First appearance)
    • Clyde Dean (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Unnamed Police Officer

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Synopsis for "The Hangman's Noose"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Adventures into Terror #12
A seller of inferior rope hits his business partner with a crowbar and thinks he has killed him, so he fashions one of the ropes into a hangman's noose and props the body into it so it appears as a suicide. He gets a cop to follow him back to the warehouse as a witness, but when he arrives, he is confronted by the man he thought he killed. He tells the officer that he was only knocked out by the crowbar and the rope was so cheap that it could not support his weight and broke.

Appearing in "Only One to a Customer"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Uncanny Tales #29

Featured Characters:

  • Jeff Brock (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Unidentified Aliens
    • Numerous unnamed aliens

Other Characters:

  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Unnamed Police Officer
  • Numerous unnamed customers

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Synopsis for "Only One to a Customer"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Uncanny Tales #29
After a pitchman abuses the hospitality of tiny alien visitors by attempting to sell them on the street for profit, they take him back to their planet where he is sold as a toy mechanical giant.

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