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The Clutching Hand #1 (1954)

American Comics Group · 1954 · 36 pages

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Contains 8 stories
The Real McCoy!
5 pp · horror-suspense
Oliver McCoyBlackie RomeDigby McCoyHepzibah McCoy
Death at the Carnival
1 pp · horror-suspense
Vampires? Don't Make Me Laugh!
6 pp · horror-suspense
Lisa CasmanaJoe

A skeptical visitor to the Institute of Research into Vampirism dismisses the curator's warnings—until he recounts the chilling case of Lisa Casmana, a refugee child who discovers she carries an ancient vampire curse within her blood. When the full moon awakens her monstrous nature and a desperate operation promises a cure, love and science seem poised to triumph—but some hungers, the curator warns, are far deeper than medicine can reach.

Death of a Doll!
5 pp · horror-suspense
The Corpse-Maker (narrator)Harold HoneywellMarilyn MeagDaisy Bergen

In "Death of a Doll!" from The Clutching Hand #1 (1954), Harold Honeywell—small in stature but wealthy in fortune—finds himself alone when the women around him reveal their true motives. Fleeing the law after a string of violent acts, he takes refuge in a circus gorilla’s cage, unaware that the beast, mourning the loss of its cherished doll, now sees him as a replacement plaything.

The Tiny Heads!
5 pp · horror-suspense
The Grim Reaper (host)un-named jungle trading-post employeeMaloka (Chief of the Jovalis Tribe, death)Jovalis Tribe (all die)McGuire (villain, trading-post employee)

In "The Tiny Heads!" from The Clutching Hand #1 (1954), employee McGuire sets out to claim the shrunken heads from the Jovalis Tribe after their refusal to sell more—driven by greed and a willingness to go to any length to secure the prize. But when he arrives at their remote village, the tiny heads he so recklessly seeks may have a far more dangerous plan than he ever imagined.

Flowering Death!
2 pp · horror-suspense
Albert RoseEd HiltonHenry AstorBrophyMary GoldDaisy SmithIris
Yawning Graves!
5 pp · horror-suspense
Amos FrisbyPeggy DaltonEphraim
The Trainer
1 pp · horror-suspense

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