Daemons, Darklings and Doppelgangers

1968
Written by Tony "Doc" Shiels
Work of Tony "Doc" Shiels
64 pages (Hardcover), published by The Supreme Magic Company
Illustrated with drawings by Ken De Courcy
Language: English
33 entries
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Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Bill Madsen Foreword
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Introduction
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Chapter 1 - Benighted
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Night of the Demon bright red flame appears then green light and sound in the dark
Also published here 8
Tony "Doc" Shiels The Mummy's Hand mummy hand in locked box starts getting out of box and moving around in the dark, when box is opened again bird claw is found inside box
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Hobgoblin small demon materializes and vanishes in dark room while performer is tied to chair
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Chapter 2 - Spellbound
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Double Double voodoo routine, hole appears in drawing at chosen body part
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Dry Djinn steel ball inside bottle, answers questions
Inspired byAlso published here
  • "Dry Djinn" in "The Linking Ring" December 1966.
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Charles Cameron Death by Sorcery voodoo routine, photograph is mutilated and duplicate photograph is shown to have same tears and burned parts
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Chapter 3 - Thaumaturgics
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Baldpate Revisited padlock through buttonhole
Also published here 27
Roy Fromer The Warlock's Forelock spectator has silver streak in hair after seance
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Xyddatha chosen Tarot card (Major Arcana) in signed envelope
Also published here 28
Tony "Doc" Shiels Hell's Smells production of an acrid stench during seance
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Through a Glass Darkly performer locates chosen Tarot card (Major Arcana)
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Zgonn!!! dark room seance performance, paper bursts in flames
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Chapter 4 - ...and long leggety Beasties
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Scarab brass scarab in box, torn corner from card travels to box and scarab changes into real beetle
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Fings building weird spooky jars with eyes inside etc.
Related to 36
Vernon Rose Burning Bright apparently a tiger comes alive in empty room, scratches, smell etc.
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E. Leslie May From Deep Down snake from egg when set on fire, spooky Nessie story
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Familiars on bats, owls, snakes and toads
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Chapter 5 - Mostly Ghostly
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Who is This Who is Coming? spectators are outside the house and see a ghost walking through a room
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Spectre face appears in dark room, similar to brain illusion
Related to 51
Tony "Doc" Shiels Noctambulation deck is hidden by spectator, invisible card is selected in eerie illuminated dark room and reversed, matching card found reversed in the hidden deck
Inspired by 53
Tony "Doc" Shiels Carmillia tied up medium, glowing head of female vampire appears in the dark
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Chapter 6 - The Fright Thing
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Tony "Doc" Shiels The Fright Thing on spooky and creepy effects
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Filmography spooky and horror movies
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Discography spooky stories
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Tony "Doc" Shiels Bibliography spooky and horror stories
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Data entered by Lorenz Schär, May 2025.