Crime SuspenStories #15
In "When the Cat's Away...", a haunting melody drifts up from a forgotten lot, stirring memories long buried. When young Margaret hears a woman’s voice calling from beneath the earth, her father’s past begins to surface—linked to a broken engagement and a song that still echoes through time. Written by Ray Bradbury and Al Feldstein, with evocative art by Jack Kamen and coloring by Marie Severin, this chilling tale unfolds with quiet dread and emotional weight. The cover, by Johnny Craig, captures the eerie stillness of a moment suspended between memory and the grave.
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When Margaret was walking through a lot, she heard a woman's voice coming from underground, begging for someone to dig her up. When she tells her parents about it, they don't believe her, but they do discuss the Nesbitts. Once long ago, when her father was engaged to Helen Nesbitt, she wrote a song for him, but they broke off the engagement. Later, Margaret returns to the lot and hears a sad song being sung by the woman, the song Helen once wrote for her father! After she hums the song to her father, they realize the truth and dig her up.
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