Haunt of Fear #24
"Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes..." from Haunt of Fear #24 (1954) delivers a chilling tale of vanity and consequence, written by Otto Binder and brought to life with stark, haunting art by Jack Kamen, whose inks and Marie Severin’s colors deepen the story’s gothic dread. The cover, a masterwork by Graham Ingels, captures the tale’s eerie essence with its unsettling portrait of a woman caught between beauty and decay.
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A heartless young woman pawns her beauty for 1000.00 to a shopkeeper she assumes is a crank. When she realizes that he has somehow caused her face to age rapidly she attempts to redeem the pawn ticket, but since he knows that she is now married to a wealthy man he demands 100000.00 for it. She knows she can't ask her husband for that much money out of the blue so she resolves to take her belongings and sell them and tell her husband they were stolen. He comes home early and assumes the old crone packing the furs is a thief so she kills him figuring there's plenty of other men to victimize. She forgets that the servants heard her voice when she entered the building and now the police are looking for her, so she can never redeem her pawn ticket if she wants to avoid being arrested for murder.
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