Guest-starring Doctor Strange! The Thing uncovers a mystical hotspot while vacationing in an enchanted manor.
Ben is on vacation on the New England coast, unsuccessfully doing some fishing. The fish don't seem to be there, so he heads back to his overly creepy hotel, stopping to help a damsel in distress (a woman with a flat tire) on the way. There seems to be only one other guest beyond Ben and the damsel, and Ben seems to think that the guest is Dr. Strange, but Doc slips away without acknowledging Ben.
Safe in his hotel room, Dr. Strange regrets not being able to acknowledge Ben but 'secrecy may be his most powerful weapon in the battle to come'. While Ben has a couple moderately eerie encounters, Doc reveals to us via his thoughts that two hundred years ago a necromancer's ship went down right off this very coast, and the necromancer enslaved one of the crewmen before dying himself. Now, many years later, the stars are right and the necromancer will be able to return from the dead and seek vengeance on the family he considered his enemy. The latest descendent of that family is Jane Crawlins, our damsel in distress.
The necromancer's enslaved servant attacks Jane, and Doc wakes Ben psychically and sends him to the rescue. Ben can't seem to do much against the servant, and while Doc watches from the spirit world the astral form of the necromancer returns to life...
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