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Appearing in "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper!"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • NYPD
    • Lt. Colma
  • Dick Poole (First appearance)

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Items:

  • Sir Guy Hollis's gun

Events

Synopsis for "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper!"

A Scotland Yard man attempts to get his psychologist friend to buy into his theory that Jack the Ripper's killings are sacrifices to dark gods in order to attain the boon of eternal youth, and at the end of the story the psychologist friend reveals himself to be Jack the Ripper.

Appearing in "More Than Blood!"

Featured Characters:

  • Paul Williams (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Linda (Paul's girlfriend, vampire) (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Westfield Heights Indians (Basketball Team) (First appearance)
    • Steve (First appearance)
    • Bill (First appearance)
    • Justin (First appearance)
    • Lonnie (First appearance)
    • Coach (First appearance)
  • Dr. Jennings (Mentioned)
  • Westfield Heights Indians (Track Team) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
    • Jimmy Ryan (First appearance) (track athlete) (Only in flashback)
  • Westfield Heights Indians (Baseball Team) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
    • Tommy Davis (First appearance) (pitcher) (Only in flashback)

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Synopsis for "More Than Blood!"

A high school sports team is plagued by a psychic vampire.

Appearing in "The Girl Who Couldn't Die"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Adventures into Terror #19
(originally printed as The Withered Hand)

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • John Clay's Wife (Unnamed)

Antagonists:

  • Monks of Tibet
    • High Lama (Unnamed)

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Items:

  • Soul of a Sinner (Ruby)

Synopsis for "The Girl Who Couldn't Die"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Adventures into Terror #19
(originally printed as The Withered Hand)

A Tibetan monk warns a man that a ruby is lighted from within by the soul of a sinner, but he cuts off the monk's hand clutching the ruby anyway and heads for the States. The monk puts a curse on him that when the had withers, the monk will come for him. From the States, he sells the ruby back to the monks for a million dollars and keeps the hand preserved, just to be safe. His wife tires of his affairs and throws the box containing the hand into the fire. The man finds himself trapped within the ruby back with the monks for all eternity.

Notes

  • "Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper!" is based on the story by American author Robert Bloch, adapted by permission of the author and the author's agent.

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