Random Happenstance

I don't think I had read this title at all before finding a couple in the quarter bin, so here's another: from 1974, the Witching Hour #40, featuring "The Tunnel of Sorrow" Written by Carl Wessler, art by Ernie Chua (Chan); "The Devil Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out" Written by George Kashdan, art by Bernard Baily; and "The Madwoman of Marshwood Lane!" Story credit unknown, art by Alex Nino.

This is a touch better than the last of these we saw: in "the Tunnel of Sorrow," Silas Markham mourns his late friend Clarence by scrambling to find his diary, since he's positive it contains the dying declaration of a woman he murdered. Unlocking Clarence's safe through a grandfather clock, Silas goes through the hell-like Tunnel of Sorrow and has to relive committing the murder, then is trapped in the clock when he leaves. Can you even do a dying declaration secondhand, even if you're dying? Maybe he should've thought this through.

In "The Devil Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out" a devil-suited young singer confronts his manager for embezzlement, so the manager runs him over. It doesn't stop the singer from making their next gig, though: you love to see that level of professionalism. Lastly, in "The Madwoman of Marshwood Lane!" a horrible son gaslights the hell out of his elderly mom. That's it. I don't think there's even a twist in that one. We'll see some better quality gaslighting later this month, though...