Black Magic Album #1
"The Patter of Little Feet" delivers a chilling dose of supernatural dread in Black Magic Album #1, a 1954 gem from Arnold Book Company. Written by Gene Colan and illustrated by his bold, atmospheric art—both inks and pencils—this tale follows a writer’s ill-fated stay at a haunted Hungarian inn, where a single room becomes a portal to something far older and more sinister than ghosts. The cover, a striking collaboration by Jack Kirby in both pencils and inks, captures the creeping unease of the story with eerie precision.
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A writer, working on a book about the ghosts of Europe, is sufficiently ill-advised to stay at a Hungarian inn with a haunted room. It transpires that the room is a rendezvous for supernatural creatures of the worst possible description.
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