The reading room
Forbidden Worlds #6
"Forbidden Worlds" #6 is an anthology featuring supernatural and horror tales. "The Flapping Head" recounts three supernatural presences haunting an ancient European castle—death itself, a phantom, and a creature known as the flapping head—which terrorize those attempting to restore the ruins, with a musician named James encountering a ghostly specter that repeatedly sabotages his efforts and a concert recital. "Strangler's Spirit" follows editor Charles Brockton's challenge to skeptical writer Peter Jennings to spend a night in a haunted house where a maniacal spirit has killed eighteen people; Brockton reveals he survived by tying himself to the bed, and Jennings ultimately experiences the possessed house firsthand, requiring four men to subdue the violent strangler before police arrive.