Journey into Unknown Worlds #19
In "The Man with a Knife," a chilling tale from Journey into Unknown Worlds #19 (1953), a reclusive knife grinder with a dark secret channels vengeance through his blades—each one cursed to kill with a will of its own. Gene Colan’s moody art brings to life a world where even the sharpest edge can carry a deadly mind, and the cover by Joe Maneely captures the story’s eerie tension in bold, dramatic lines.
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A knife grinder who only works for hated nobles uses blood on the grindstone to curse the blades so that they will kill with a mind of their own. When he is arrested on suspicion because he is in the area of the stabbing, the jail cook uses the grindstone to sharpen the knife that the grinder will use for his jail meal, and the grinder stabs himself to death with it.
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