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""Death Held the Lantern High"": A female ghost with a lantern is seen on the Beach at Cornwall England. The woman seems to be floating on the water but then disappears. Carl Ventriss and his family witness the specter and they question locals as to her origin. One local resident informs him

Ghosts #17 is an issue of the series Ghosts (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1973.

Synopsis for "Death Held the Lantern High"

A female ghost with a lantern is seen on the Beach at Cornwall England. The woman seems to be floating on the water but then disappears. Carl Ventriss and his family witness the specter and they question locals as to her origin. One local resident informs him that the woman is the ghost of Maude Fleming who crossed the ocean in 1872 with her children aboard a schooner. They run into a hurricane, the woman survives but she wanders through the wreckage searching for her lost children. It is said that she died of grief and continues to search for her missing children to this day. A week later, Ventriss and his wife head to the village to pick up a few things. They leave the children behind in a cottage when sudden storm hits. The parents are unable to return back to pick up the children and they are left to fend for themselves. As the waters rise, the cottage is engulfed and the flood begins to enter the dwelling. All of a sudden the lady ghost appears with her lantern. She takes the children and leads them to safety. The next day the children are found clinging to reef but they are OK.

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Synopsis for "The Specters Were the Stars"

A movie company shoots a film that reenacts a revolution in Ireland. It focuses on a PVt Michael Faulkner who shoots a revolutionary but finds that he is merely a boy. He takes the dead boys body back to his family. He is ridden with guilt at what he has done. The boys sister greets him at the door and she seems to have some empathy for the soldier that killed her brother. Private Faulkner is eventually killed by locals that blame him for the boys death as chaos ensues all around them. The director yells cut and the film is rushed to print but when it is screened, they view phantoms all around the landscape who are presumed to protect their honored dead. The film is declared a loss and it is scrapped

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Synopsis for "Phantoms of the Flash!"

A boy named Joe is walking home when he finds a flashlight on the ground. As soon as he uses it he finds that the flashlight gives him the ability to view a pair of ghosts. The ghosts implore the boy not to use the flashlight when it suddenly goes dark. The batteries have been depleted and they can never be replaced since most people do not believe in ghosts.

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Synopsis for "The Devil's Ouija"

A landowner by the name of Count Ritzky finds a band of gypsies living on his property. One of the gypsies offers to read a Ouija board to tell the Counts fate. The board reveals that the counts will be dead in three days and that he will die of drowning. Ritzky laughs because he know for a fact that in three days he will be in the Arabian desert one of the driest places on earth. Ritzky continues to evict the gypsies and scoffs at their predictions. Twenty four hours later Ritzky is on a train as is runs into a deluge of rain. The count begins to fear that he will actually drown just at the Ouija board foretold but he comes out OK. He starts to celebrate but suddenly collapses. Ritzky dies of Pneumonia, his lungs were filled with fluid. The gypsies prophecies had come true.

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Notes

  • This issue includes a one-page text story entitled "How to Find a Phantom".



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