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Quote1 Do you know what I'm doing, Verna? I'm going to tear your photo into little pieces... How I've hated you and this picture you'll never know! Quote2
Ben Maijus

Appearing in "The Spider Waits"

Featured Characters:

  • Sven (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

  • Mr. O'Toole

Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Lady-Spider

Other Characters:

  • Leif (Only in flashback)
  • Sven's mother (Only in flashback)
  • Satan (Referenced)
  • Charlie (Bartender)

Races and Species:

  • Humans (Main story and flashback)
  • Spiders (Main story and flashback)

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Synopsis for "The Spider Waits"

Sven is a factory worker who is charged with the task of keeping his workplace free of spiders. Unfortunately, Sven suffered a harrowing incident as a child and is deathly afraid of them. As an adult however, he manages to overcome his fear and takes great delight in killing every spider he can find. After work, he meets a woman at a bar who pays him ten dollars to clean the spiders out of her parlor. When he arrives at her house, he realizes that the lady is actually a spider-woman who traps Sven inside of a gigantic web.

Appearing in "In Little Pieces"

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Synopsis for "In Little Pieces"

A man finds he has the power to kill people by tearing photos of them. He decides to get rid of his shrew wife by tearing her photo but after doing it without even glancing at it, his recently fearful wife tells him that she has been trying to please him lately so she replaced her photo with one of him.

Appearing in "The Curse Of Makhe-Sof"

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Synopsis for "The Curse Of Makhe-Sof"

Pharaoh Makhe-Sof cursed his piramid tomb so it only appears every one thousand years and everybody who enters dies. When a modern greedy man kills two explorers to get the tomb's treasure Makhe-Sof ghost curses him to become a living mummy and guard the tomb for the next thousand years.

Appearing in "The Red Face"

Featured Characters:

  • Maurice Vallou

Supporting Characters:

  • Claude Vallou
  • Cecile Vallou
  • Charles Raveau

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  • Babaro
  • Undead Stage Coach Driver

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Synopsis for "The Red Face"

A man arranges for a rival to be murdered at Mardi Gras, but instead of meeting the assassin in a Devil costume, he gets hauled away by the real Devil.

Appearing in "The Drop of Water"

Featured Characters:

  • Albert (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

  • Albert's Unnamed College Professor (Only in flashback)
  • Crying Statue (Only in flashback)

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Items:

  • Statue's Tear

Synopsis for "The Drop of Water"

The tear from a statue turns out to be the universal solvent.

Appearing in "The Man Who Vanished!"

Featured Characters:

  • Willis Striker (Apparent death)

Supporting Characters:

  • Billings

Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Old Man

Other Characters:

  • Jud (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)

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Synopsis for "The Man Who Vanished!"

An evil old man in a cabin tends plants who used to be people.

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