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Forbidden Worlds #30
Forbidden Worlds #30 This anthology issue contains multiple stories. "The Thing at the Beach" features a yellow, demonic creature with antenna attacking people on a shoreline. "The Street That Was" follows Paul Harmon, a ruthless killer and FBI public enemy #1 who escapes jail and encounters ghostly apparitions on city streets; desperate and hungry, he seeks a gun at a pawn shop, only to have his touch kill those around him as supernatural vengeance catches up with him. A third story involves a maritime adventure where a woman accused of murder is marooned on a ship with crew members, ultimately being cast away to a nearby island. The final visible story concerns a wealthy man named Thorne at an auction who covets a portrait of a woman named Maria, only to discover that the Corbie family murders him in revenge, claiming the portrait will haunt him eternally.