Item Biography
"The Warlock Tree!"
In ancient times, a warlock is slain, skewered to a tree with a sword and with his dying breath, leaves a curse. The sword remains there to this day. A young couple picnic there and carves their initials in the tree trunk, putting them perilously under the curse.
"The Tale-tell Heart"
A young man must rely on his uncle's charity to get by in hard times, but the man finds his uncle's glass eye unnerving. He murders his uncle and hides the remains, but, when the detectives arrive, the old man's heart will not be silenced.
"Something Lurks on Shadow Mountain!"
A man goes mountain climbing to forget the death of his love, but carelessly strays into territory that is considered to be cursed. There, he meets a mysterious woman who asks him to open a box. When a shambling figure of Death incarnate gets out of it, the woman is revealed to be Pandora, and the man must summon all of his courage to stop what he has started.
Story written by Roy Thomas, drawn by John Buscema, inked by John Verpoorten, and lettered by Sam Rosen; 7 pages.
Reprinted in Tomb of Darkness #18.