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| "Dr. Damon Knight"-- I expect this was written by a colleague of the esteemed science fiction writer, Damon Knight.
"Tuckerization," by the way, is the practice of writing real names into one's books. Wilson "Bob" Tucker was fond of the practice, as you might expect.
More recently, I've seen the privilege of being a character (usually minor, maybe a red-shirt) in a book or story being auctioned off, with proceeds often going to charity. |
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| More than that, Muffaroo. You could say the beautifully drawn Cure of the Beckoning Mummy is a good example of Damon Knight's 'idiot plot' - the story only works because Dr Knight behaves like an idiot and follows the ghostly presence into the closed chamber - instead of running for the hills screaming like a cheetah on heat. |
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| Publication | February 1951 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Publisher advertisement | There's no such animal, he cried! (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside cover. Promo for U.S. Savings Bonds. Indicia at bottom of the page. |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Beckoning Mummy (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Archeologist Damon Knight excavates an ancient egypt tomb. He is warned by the ghost of the 8,000 years old mummy of Kali-Dahn not to desecrate his burial chamber. As Knight continues, he gets lured into the tomb and has to take the mummy's place. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Dr. Dembrow; King Kali-Dahn (apparition); Dr. Damon Knight; Karen Knight |
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| Comic Story | True Creepy Tales #1 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "We may laugh at the thought of ghosts. That's what the young Smiths, who were spending their honeymoon in Massachusetts, did".
As the couple goes on a canoe trip at night, they encounter an indian ghost canoe and get capsized. They manage to swim to safety though. |
| Featuring | True Creepy Tales |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Uncle Ben; Jack Smith; Ms. Smith |
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| Comic Story | Venom of the Vampires (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A plane goes down in Honduras. The pilot, a young woman and Count Vacrini survive and make their way to the jungle. They encounter bloodsucking bats and an indian tribe. Vacrini turns out to be a necromancer and wounds the indian chief. He is killed for that, but returns as a fullgrown vampire. The pilot locks him inside a cave, where Vacrini is eaten alive by small vampire bats. Pilot and girl marry. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Elizabeth Brown; Johnny Pierce; Count Vacrini |
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| Comic Story | True Creepy Tales #2 (1 page) |
| Synopsis | "There is a belief among the village people of Yorkshire, England, that the soul always returns to the body once in twenty-four hours until after the funeral..."
A hunter gives a lift to a taciturn traveller. On inquiring about his passenger later on, he learns that the man died a day ago. |
| Featuring | True Creepy Tales |
| Notes | Feature continues as True Tales of Unexplained Mystery in Web of Mystery (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #2 (April 1951). |
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| Comic Story | The Lamenting Voice of the Bell (6.66 pages) |
| Synopsis | The deformed hunchback Hans Walden is a masterful bell-caster. His bells sound like the voices of angels - because he melts human bodies in the boiling cauldron as well. After manufacturing an old friend into a new bell, Walden is haunted by the ghostly tolling of the bell. He breaks down and confesses. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Johann Mier; Schnabel; Hans Walden |
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| Publisher advertisement | Sur-Prize Contest |
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| Text Story | Model For a Madman (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A mad painter kills women to portrait their horror on canvas. His latest victim outwits him, sets fire to his place and escapes. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense |
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| Comic Story | Ghost Ship of the Caribbean (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | A young couple steer their boat into a hurricane and end up on a pirate ghost ship. The crew want to murder them, but they are protected by the captain's ghost, who turns out to be the man's great grandfather. |
| Content | Genre: Horror-suspense | Characters: Anne Johnson; Bill Johnson; Captain Phineas Johnson (ghost); Black Tom Lord (ghost) |
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| Publisher advertisement | Goose? Or Nest? (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Promo for U.S. Savings Bonds. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. Advertisement for an electric spot reducer. |
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