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Series: Strange Tales

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Publisher: Marvel

Title: Strange Tales
Issue: 5
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: February 1952
Volume: 1

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Story Title: The Room Without a Door! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: The Room Without a Door - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Henry; Wilkins; Mattery; Albitra Narrse
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: Welcome to the Werewolves - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Steve Simon; Draja Obranovitch


Story Title: Little Man Who Was There - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Dennis Ames
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: The Trap - comic story
Pages:6
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Hugh Kane; John Fenston; Alton Barnes
Synopsis: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.


Story Title: My Brother Harry - comic story
Pages:5
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:Phil; Marge; Harry; Lola Richmond
Synopsis: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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