Secrets of Sinister House #8

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The Young Man Who Cried... Werewolf... Once Too Often

A man desperately flags down the police on a deserted highway. A squad car pulls up and the man states that he and his girlfriend have been attacked by a werewolf. The man escaped but the woman lies dead in his car with two puncture wounds on her neck. They call for an ambulance but when it arrives. The corpse of the woman has disappeared. The police are puzzled as they discuss the case the next day in their office. They are shocked to then see the victim walk into their headquarters. Sylvia Kringle states that she was passed out but revived and simply walked off. The couple rethinks their story and decide there was no werewolf after all. The attacker was probably a vagrant. The woman is asked about the puncture marks on her neck and she explains that she was born with birthmarks that resemble punctures. She has had them all her life. The police shrug off the case and consider it closed. They later find that a strange man has dropped into the office and identified himself as an expert at fighting werewolves. The police find him to be rather bizarre and abruptly shun him. The cops resume their usual patrol. They travel to the same spot where they first encountered the alleged attack and they see the same man hailing them again asking for help. This time he states that his friend Claire has been attacked by a werewolf. The police are puzzled because the previous woman victim was named Sylvia. The man states that it was Sylvia who bit Claire. Sylvia has been transformed into a werewolf. The police examine the car and find a dead woman lying in the front seat. A police officer stays with the body while the other officer calls for an ambulance. The corpse soon turns into a werewolf and seemingly attacks the police officer that was guarding her. The Ambulance soon arrives but again there is no corpse. The police officer that was guarding the body had passed out and has no recollection of what happened. All this is too strange so the police call upon the strange man that claimed that he was a werewolf expert. Professor Oscar Thorndyke is asked to help on the case. Thorndyke introduces his beautiful young assistant named Mercedes. He explains that she will help them catch the werewolf and that she has been trained for the job. They send in Mercedes to the home of Myron who originally hailed the police from the highway. Myron converses with Mercedes but soon transforms into a werewolf. He attempts to bite Mercedes on the neck but the werewolf breaks out in pain as his teeth crack. It turns out that Mercedes is a robot and is not susceptible to werwolf bites. The professor then explain to the police officer that employed him that his partner has also become a werewolf but for $8000 he will send in his assistant Mercedes to “cure him” The officer is reluctant but then admits that his partner bit him that morning. He transforms into a werewolf right in front of Professor Thorndyke and attacks. | Synopsis2 =An apartment superintendent terrorizes the neighborhood kids. He violently abuses them and forces them to do all kinds of hard labor around the building. A boy named Billy desperately tries to tell his parents about the abuse but they callously dismiss him. They accuse Billy of having an overactive imagination and urge him to stand up to the abuse. One day Billy passes by a pet store and spots a strange colorful lizard. He buys it and takes it home. The boy has fun with the lizard and names it Lizzie. One day the maniacal superintendent roughs up Billy and forces him to stoke the incinerator. The lizard attacks the super and bites him on the arm. The super manages to grab the small lizard and flings it into the incinerator. Billy is devastated that his pet lizard is gone. He returns to his apartment and finds that a collection of people is there to visit him. His teacher and school psychologist are very concerned about Billy’s mental health. They state that they are very sorry that Lizzie is dead. Billy insists that the lizard is still alive and offers to take them down to the basement to see her. When they arrive in the incinerator room they find a distraught superintendent blabbering that its huge. Billy then walks into the incinerator room as he dons a protective outfit that shields him from the heat. He then walks up to a large dragon like creature and introduces it as Lizzie. | Synopsis3 =An astronaut named Ferber is reluctant to go into space. He states that he can travel with his fellow astronauts provided that there is no full moon. He is informed that NASA wishes to study the Lunar night and no full moon is involved . Ferber travels on the spaceship as it heads to the moon but he then finds that they will orbit before landing on the dark side. Ferber realizes that they must pass through the part of the moon that is fully lit. They journey past the lit moon but Ferber hides out in a dark compartment on the ship which shields him from any light rays reflected off the moon. They land on the dark side and begin to perform their moon walk. As they walk further, Ferber changes into a werewolf and attempts to attack a fellow astronaut. The werewolf then tears up his spacesuit in the attack as he tries to free himself. The spacesuit is severely damaged and the harsh lunar atmosphere kills the werewolf. The two astonished surviving astronauts stare down at their dead teammate. It is then revealed that the werewolf was transformed by the light of a full Earth.

| Editor1_1 = E. Nelson Bridwell | Editor1_2 = Joe Orlando | Editor2_1 = E. Nelson Bridwell | Editor2_2 = Joe Orlando | Editor3_1 = E. Nelson Bridwell | Editor3_2 = Joe Orlando

| Writer1_1 = | Writer2_1 = Maxene Fabe | Writer3_1 = E. Nelson Bridwell

| Penciler1_1 = Bill Draut | Penciler2_1 = Ruben Yandoc | Penciler3_1 =

| Inker1_1 = Bill Draut | Inker2_1 = Ruben Yandoc | Inker3_1 =

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| Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Eve)

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| Notes = | Trivia = | Recommended = * Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love * Forbidden Tales of Dark Mansion * Sinister House of Secret Love * Tales of Ghost Castle

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Creative credits

Writers: Maxene Fabe, E. Nelson Bridwell

Interior art: Bill Draut, Ruben Yandoc

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