The October Game

[cyberghostface]

I posted this last year but the images are now gone due to abload going under so here it is again for Halloween.

This is from Shock SuspenStories #9.

The story opens with a man named Mitch Wilder putting a gun back in his drawer. He is contemplating killing his wife but decides not to as it would be over too quick and she wouldn't suffer.



We find out that he is bitter at his wife for having their daughter in her image as opposed to having a dark-haired boy. Louse in turns dotes on Marion. Mitch finds himself trapped and unhappy in what he considers to be a frigid relationship with a family that does not love him. He considers divorce or to simply leave but he wants to find a way to hurt Louise first.

On Halloween they have a party for the neighborhood kids with the final game being 'The Tomb of the Witch'. 

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[beeyo]

Consider my beans scared

[full_metal_ox]

Compare with the complementary Wham Line from “Blind Alleys“ in Tales From the Crypt #46: “And then some idiot turned off the lights.”

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