Crypt of Shadows #17
In "The Menace of Shandu!", a man’s fragile grip on reality unravels when his brother claims to commune with their dead mother—provoking violent rage and a desperate act of revenge. After his wife poisons him, he believes he’s survived, only to return home to find her indifferent and his brother eerily whispering, “I see all dead people, don’t I, Philip?” Tony Di Preta handles both pencils and inks for the chilling interior art, while Gil Kane and Tom Palmer deliver the haunting cover.
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A man's brother claims to be able to talk to their dead mother which annoys the man, so he beats his brother. 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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