The Unexpected #143 is an issue of the series The Unexpected (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1973.
Synopsis for "Fear Is A Nameless Voice"
A jealous puppetmaster murders his assistant and buries his body in the theater basement. Onstage with his wife, the dummies blurt out his secret much to his astonishment. He finishes the show early and then attempts to lure his wife into the basement to murder her as well, but the dummies warn her of his intentions. She flees to acquire the aid of the police. When she returns, she finds that her husband has smashed all the dummies, his mind completely gone.
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Synopsis for "What Evil Lurks In The Night"
A cemetery caretaker named Luke encounters a graverobber that looks exactly like himself. The lookalike thief confesses to robbing several valuables from freshly buried bodies but surprisingly the caretaker does not turn him in. He offers the thief refuge in his own home as he wonders why he feels compelled to helping this unusual criminal. Luke eventually decides that it is too risky hiding him in his own home and he arranges for the thief to sneak away In a hearse bound for the city. The graverobber is perplexed when he sees that the hearse is not headed back to a funeral home but rather to a scrapyard where the car is sold for scrap and crushed with the thief still inside. The scene changes as Luke wakes up from a nightmare. He realizes that the thief was actually himself and he was witnessing an omen as to what would happen if he continued robbing the dead. Luke takes the possessions he has stolen and returns them to their rightful deceased owners.
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Synopsis for "Panic Grips Manhatten"
A surgeon by the name of Dr Paul Jarvis approaches a man named Joe Morton and his family. He offers Morton $10,000 to allow him to perform an experimental surgery in which a computer brain would be installed in his head. The family is in desperate need of money and Joe readily agrees to the surgery in spite of protests from his wife Stella. Joe leaves a note for his wife and secretly goes through with the procedure. The operation is completed but it turns Joe into a homicidal murderous monster. Paul Jarvis is shocked at the results but he shows more concern for his own reputation rather than the well being of Morton and his family. Morton embarks on a murderous rampage and the city of Manhattan is gripped in fear. A picture of Morton surfaces in the newspaper showing him in the act of murder and Jarvis becomes concerned that Mortons wife will recognize the picture and notify the authorities. Jarvis realizes that he must murder Stella Morton in order to salvage his reputation. He arrives at the Morton apartment accompanied by Joe and he orders him to murder his own wife. Joe refuses to obey the order and murders Jarvis by pushing him out the window of the high story apartment. Both men are killed but Joe's family is unharmed.
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