Strange Tales #2

[scottandrewhutchins]

ST 2/1
Sir Alexander Laurier
Sir Humphrey Devonshire (dies)
Dr. Higgins (dies)
Dr. Bartlow (dies)
Colonel Walter Briggs

Story is set in Canada from December 24-26. The first four are members of the Royal Ministry of Embryology, all except Laurier are killed by a tarlike alien weapon that destroys two Canadian towns north of the arctic circle, one called Victoria. The aliens (not seen), from an unidentified race, are killed.

ST 2/2 (text)
Johnny Grant
pitchman
Lulu the hula dancer
Bill
fortune teller (possibly Arab)
Officer O’Leary (disguised as a drunk)


Plainville

ST 2/3
Professor Hiram Lapham (dies)
George Orris (implicit death)
Helen Orris
Mr. Dent, Dent Chemical Corporation

Lapham invents a transmigration box.

ST 2/4
Walter Ambrose
Buster/Professor Lungham

P.S. 27

ST 2/5
Alice/Wraith
Fred (dies)
Jim (implicit death)
Lucretio de Velli (legendary murderer who could become a wraith--mentioned)
Campono (cited author)