1923: ‘The Tortoise Shell Comb’ by Roylston Markham

Hertzsprung- Russell rating: O10^-3.5

Available in: Weird Tales, Volume I, no. 2

Synopsis: A ghost who loves having her hair combed lures unsuspecting men to a haunted house (she’s a ghost and she’s luring them to a haunted house; they gotta suspect something) where they end up hanging themselves with her hair. So the comb was a brush with death, I guess. This story was slow. Probably because the comb was tortoise shell.