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Misty Annual Issue 1983

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Date:January 1st, 1983

Cilla the Chiller:Part 5

Last Train
Judy used to like the ghost train but as a 'Misty' reader it doesn't scare her any more - has one last ride for old times' sake, but on her second go round the generator breaks and is plunged into blackness, confronted with Dracula and Frankenstein's creature, but when she comes round in hospital told she got an electric shock and her brain created these hallucinations.

Miss T:Part 1400

Miss T:Part 1401

Moonchild
Rosemary and mother in court for beating her (case dismissed), bullied in school, trick played on her (match in chalk) and sets her hair on fire, double eye circular panel (p26) as she uses powers.

Moonchild:Part 2
Norma vows revenge on Rosemary for getting her into trouble (Oath to Love Honour and Obey). Rosemary realises she has power by saving her friend Anne from being hit by lorry.

Moonchild:Part 3
Rosemary Black [Carrie White!]’s mum dislikes her new hair, Norma and gang make plans to befriend Rosemary and find out what she likes so they can spoil it [also smoking]. Rosemary practises her power and it gets stronger, her mum sees and tries to beat her but she moves cane from her hands, tells Anne next day and is worried about where it will end and whether power is evil

Moonchild:Part 4
Rosemary bends needle to get out of booster injections, nurse notices glowing scar on her forehead, Dawn starts to be friendly towards her but Anne is suspicious and warns her, mother says she cannot go to Dr, Rosemary has nightmare of flames and all her classmates laughing at her, goes to find mother but sees something shocking

Moonchild:Part 5
Rosemary finds portrait of her grandmother who looks just like her and with same scar and power, forges mum’s signature on Drs note for tests, Dawn picks her for hockey team but Anne warns her again and Rosemary pulls back, Norma and Dawn meet and decide to get Anne out of the way.

Moonchild:Part 6
Rosemary is waiting for Drs apt, Norma and friends plan for Anne to have a hockey accident, boy teases Rosemary and falls off his skateboard [Carrie ref?], Norma takes Anne out at hockey (unconscious) while Rosemary is at Drs, tests are normal until she sees Anne being brought in and ‘alpha waves are going crazy’ as panels and lab shatter.

Moonchild:Part 7
Doctor tests Rosemary and tells her it is telekinesis and he wants to do more experiments but Nurse stops him; she tells Anne (‘Guess what I’ve got? Telekinesis! Sounds awful, doesn’t it?’), Dawn and Norma have another meeting (‘Rosemary deserves to be hurt for being so weird’) and continue with plan, taking Anne flowers which convinces her, and walking Rosemary home.

Moonchild:Part 8
Rosemary goes back with Dawn to watch TV thinks there is someone following, helps her brother with his toys which have run out of batteries but senses another power moving them (they trip up Dawn), next day Dawn tries to back out as Rosemary ‘gives me the creeps’ but Norma won’t allow it, Mrs Black arrives at the school in long black cape.

Moonchild:Part 9
Rosemary’s mum comes to school and tells her story to doctor – her mum had the power, when her dad went away to fight in war and she heard an intruder she used it to kill him with iron but turned out to be her husband and she was taken away by police and Mrs Black put in an orphanage. Explains is only strict to ‘stop the wickedness. To stop something terrible happening again…’ She forbids more tests on Rosemary. Later Rosemary tells Dawn what she really wants is a birthday party and Norma decides to host one for her [gang chanting ‘Shame! Shame!’ – like shower scene in Carrie?] ‘Yeah, I reckon I could be a real fairy godmuvver to ol’ weirdo Rosemary! We could arrange a birthday party for her. A very special birthday party!’

Moonchild:Part 10
Dawn and Norma make plans for Rosemary’s party, Rosemary’s mother tells her about her grandmother also having this power and killing her husband, Rosemary starts making herself a dress for the party and then sees her grandmother’s ghost.

Moonchild:Part 11
Grandmother revealed as not dead, and that she was one who tried to scare Dawn, warns Rosemary that she will betray her. Norma and friends make horrible cake, Norma’s common mother also comments on it ‘See you, mum. Don’t nick any of me fags on your way out.’ Annie gets out of hospital and Rosemary brings her to party, looking ‘so happy. She’s almost aglow with happiness. She looks as pretty as a picture.’ and Rosemary vows nothing will spoil her night.

Moonchild:Part 12
Rosemary arrives at party, they pretend to be nice, then lock Anne in cupboard and give Rosemary mean gifts, horrid cake, spray her with paint, and blindfold her for game – she falls off balcony and then rises back up into the air and tells Norma ‘you’ve had your turn. Now… it’s mine.’ Directly facing reader, given perspective of Norma and friends.

Moonchild:Part 13
Rosemary punishes Norma and friends with cake and loud music (sun has got his hat on – record sticks), they run, but Norma sets house on fire smoking, Grandmother reveals she saved Rosemary and firebrigade put out flames. Grandmother dies in hospital and Rosemary’s mother leaves, Rosemary’s powers vanish and she goes to live with Anne.

The Bedtime Visitor
Children are haunted by a crying ghost of a young girl at bedtime, one night narrator is attacked and scratched, spends time in hospital with infected cuts and the family move. As an adult she returns to the house for work and encounters the ghost again and runs, but researches it and discovers a young girl with plague was locked up there by the family and scratched the door unable to escape. Asks for an exorcism but told this has already been done.

The Curse Of Castle Krumlaut
Historical. Shona is a sharpshooter in circus and is hired by Baroness to shoot a wolf but discovers it is the Baron who is a werewolf, she refuses to shoot him but in struggle the gun goes off and kills him, and Baroness reveals she is a vampire, but Shona shoots her too.

When The Sky Fell In
Zolon rules under the sea and wishes to merge his kingdom with the sky but (after a might feast) the princess will not marry his cruel son and war is waged (the Cumulunci against the depths). Princess is locked in tower for protection and visited by Misty, who has been sent by mankind who suffer in the war and agrees to help her. Misty tells Zolon she will bring the sky down for him, but does this so slowly that it inconveniences everyone and Zolon agrees to call off the attack.

Winter Jasmine
Anne and husband John caught in snow storm on moors on Christmas eve, abandon car and find some wild jasmine growing which Alison picks and then they discover a house. They are made welcome as John is a doctor and helps deliver a baby while Alison is shown to room, but sees a ghostly young girl steal her jasmine flowers from the vase. Housekeeper tells her story of her youth with her friend Alison, who has a cruel aunt and makes friends with an orphan boy, Alison gets consumption and he is forbidden from seeing her but breaks in and promises to bring her some wild jasmine but is frozen to death on the moors. Now Alison has her jasmine Anne thinks she sees them hand in hand in the snow.

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