CATALOG RECORD

Strange Mysteries #14

Superior · Series began 1951 · November 1953

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script: John Martin

Horror in the House · 8 pages
A woman kills her uncle who is an engraver, making it look like suicide. His ghost tells the police to inspect the bullets. They do and find a message indicating that the niece killed him. She is hanged.
The Evil Stranger · 7 pages
A woman tries to burn her husband to death to collect the insurance money. He escapes, gets a new plastic face, comes back as an insurance company employee, and marries her. They both are burned to death after a struggle.
Haunted Hands · 2 pages
Blood and Old Bones · 6 pages
A man buys a cemetery to dig for oil. A man whose wife is buried in the cemetery kills one of the workers. That man is then killed by the man who bought the cemetery. He continues to drill, but strikes blood instead of oil.
The Dead Speak! · 9 pages
Two men try to revive corpses. One of the men kills the other. He leaves the country and works to perfect his reviving potion. He tries to revive a dead woman but chooses the wrong grave and revives his dead partner who kills him.

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