Strange Tales , #5

Published: February 1952

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Issue Contents:
The Room Without a Door!
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Colors: Goldberg credited by himself.

The Room Without a Door
Storyline

A scientist rejects science as useless for discovering the secret of time travel and turns to black magic instead. Hearing of a woman related to a witch burned in 1692 living nearby, he spies on her and sees her summon the ghost of her ancestor. She confirms to the ghost that only she can travel through time by means of 'the room without a door.' The scientist gets the witch evicted and buys the house so that he can search for this room. He finds a small box with wallpaper made to resemble a room. He breaks the box open and finds himself transported back to 1692 tied to a burning stake.

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Welcome to the Werewolves
The Little Man Who Was There
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Dennis Ames keeps seeing a strange little man just before some disaster happens that he narrowly escapes, and he eventually comes to realize that he can't escape forever, because the little man is Death.

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A similar plot to The Twilight Zone's "The Hitchhiker".

The Trap
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When a man's plane explodes he is thrown into the future to view his act of killing his new boss and then being executed.

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Script credit from the Masterworks reprint.

My Brother Harry
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A man's brother claims to be able to talk to his dead mother which annoys him, so he beats him. His wife is tired of his cruelty and poisons him. He thinks that he has survived the attempt to murder him, but when he arrives home to kill her and blame it on his brother, she ignores him and only his brother speaks to him as "I see all dead people, don't I, Philip?"

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