Mystic #20
In "The Witch and I," a Count haunted by his mother’s dying words must confront the mystery of a faceless doll she left behind—a figure said to represent his greatest enemy. With no clear direction, he gathers those he’s wronged for a tense banquet, setting the doll ablaze in hopes of revealing the truth. Art Peddy’s moody interiors and Christopher Rule’s sharp inks bring a gothic tension to this chilling tale, while Russ Heath’s cover captures the eerie moment of flame and dread.
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A Count has a witch for a mother and he forces her to use her black magic to gain advantage over the peasants. As she lays dying, she gives him a last doll and tells him that it is a figure of his greatest enemy. She dies before she can instruct him what to do with it, so because it has no face, he is not sure who his greatest enemy is and invites several people he has wronged in the past to a banquet. At the banquet he lights the doll on fire, thinking one of the guests will burst into flame, but he does instead.
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