Possibly released to capitalize on the popularity of the 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical version of the story? (the musical is mentioned in solicitation copy for this issue).

First Story:The Phantom of the Opera.

Soprano Christine Daae is stalked, then abducted by a grotesquely disfigured man who lives under the Paris Opera House. Her other admirer Raoul, with the help of a mysterious man known only as the Persian, eventually rescues her.

Second Story:The Thing in the Black.

A woman seeks to be the queen of society in her town, and to dispose of her younger rival she spreads the rumor that the younger woman is a vampire. But rumors and accusations can work both ways.

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