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Bughouse #2
This issue contains two stories. "Smellbound" features a girl psychiatrist named Violet Ray treating a patient who hears strange, terrible music; the patient confesses to murder and claims he came to her for "elecution lessons," but the psychiatrist discovers his weapons and grows suspicious of his claims. The second story involves a séance held at a mansion on Ridgeway and Pine Streets, where a District Attorney and others gather to contact the spirit of the late Frederick Dougall; during the séance, the spirit of John Rowan is summoned instead, and a flaming finger of death appears, killing the man at the desk and leaving Mrs. Dale in shock, with the coroner's report later revealing the death was genuine and unexplained.