The Small Assassin

[cyberghostface.insanejournal.com]

 

This one's from Shock SuspenStories #7.

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[besamim.insanejournal.com]

One of EC's best Bradbury adaptations (they did several, the first unauthorized but the rest in cooperation with him when he called them on it). I posted this way back when on the old s_d; good to see it here again.

From the black-and-white, I gather these scans are from the 80s EC Library reprints.

[tavella.insanejournal.com]

It's one of Bradbury's best and creepiest stories, too.

[sistermagpie.insanejournal.com]

Hee! I always remember that last line from this story.:-D

[vignettelante.insanejournal.com]

That was pretty freaky.

And yet, my first thought when reading about "the killer, the little murderer, the small assassin" was "Identity Crisis?" :o

[wheresmything.insanejournal.com]

Oh, babies know. They know.

But if they can't open a door, they probably can't get in and out of a crib either.

[fra080389]

A baby with adult intelligence would fall in a trick like that tho? I wonder if Ray Bradbury wanted to leave the reader in doubt if the baby was actually just a baby and the father/doctor were at the end influenced by mother's paranoia and weird accidents.