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Web of Mystery #2

Ace Magazines [1940s-1950s] · Series began 1951 · April 1951

Dates

Cover date
April 1951
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Frank Giusto, George Appel, Kenneth Rice, Mike Sekowskyinks: Frank Giusto, George Appel, Kenneth Rice, Vince Alascia

Stories

  • The Lorelei of Loon Lake · 7 pages

    A swimmer meets a mermaid-like woman in an underwater cave. She tells him to bring a message to a man on the surface. Investigating the incident, the two men find the remains of lovely red-haired Lola, who drowned ten years ago.

  • True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #3 · True Tales of Unexplained Mystery · 1 pages

    "It was a dreary day in London, on October 18th, 1902, when elderly Graham Hilliard passed away..." At the reading of the will, the portrait of the deceased starts to frown when the name of his cook is mentioned. Turns out he was poisoned by this person.

  • Legacy of the Accursed · 7 pages

    In a Scotch castle, a vampire comes to life. First posing as an attorney, he can be identified quickly and is destroyed in his coffin.

  • True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #4 · True Tales of Unexplained Mystery · 1 pages

    "On a cold winter's day in 1879 in the North Atlantic, the freighter Liverpool Lucy was cutting through the icy waters..." A ghost appears in the captain's cabin and commands him to steer another course. In doing so, a boat full of shipwrecked men is found and saved.

  • The Unseen Host · 7 pages

    Publisher Reynolds returns to his office after a week of vacation to find out that he is dead. He has been killed in his sleep in a train accident, now he wanders around getting used to being dead. He learns that his best friend Brad had staged the "accident" to get his hands on the Reynolds heritage. Though being a ghost, he can expose the evil-doer.

  • A Killer's Brain · 2 pages

    A private eye is held captive by an evil brain-transplanting surgeon. Fighting ensues with an additional beast-like murderer and the in-the-nick-of-time-arriving police force.

  • Midnight Marauder · 7 pages

    A hunting party in the French Canadian wilds is attacked by a werewolf. One of the men is bitten and has to race time not to change into another werewolf. The man can kill the original werewolf - thus freeing their friend from the werewolf's curse.

Reprinted in

Baffling Mysteries (1951), Terror Tales (1969), Ghosts (2025), Werewolf (2025)

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