Dates
- Cover date
- October 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Vengeance Weaves a Tapestry · 7 pages
Curator Teleman from Chicago searches an ancient tapestry in a castle in Germany. He awakens the sleeping vampire duke Ludwig von Hohenstaufen. The fiend kills a number of people before he can be destroyed by sunlight. The tapestry is found in the vampire's coffin, depicting him as the monster he always was.
- True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #9 · True Tales of Unexplained Mystery · 1 pages
"When the french army was fighting its toughest battle of World War I, tales of heroic ventures became almost commonplace..." A lieutenant is killed leading an attack. His ghost returns to complete the task.
- Rendezvous with the Phantom Gypsies · 7 pages
A gypsy boy flees the orphanage he lives in and travels with a salesman to a gypsy camp. They witness a gypsy wedding. In an outburst of jealousy the salesman kills the groom and drives away, burning down the camp. The boy escapes and is found by the police. The events he saw took place ten years ago, at the time when he was brought to the orphanage.
- True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #10 · True Tales of Unexplained Mystery · 1 pages
"In the late 19th century, Alex Jayson and his wife prepared to take an expedition into the malayan jungle..." Jayson starts his trip leaving his sick wife behind. When his whole party gets lost in the jungle and dies from fever, his wife's pet bird leads him back to civilization. Sadly his wife also has perished.
- The Menace That Stalked Brooding Cunliffe · 7 pages
Beautiful Cambria is torn between two men. Unfortunately one of them is a werewolf stalking the english countryside of Cunliffe. In the end the werewolf lover gets stabbed to death.
- A Night of Terror · 2 pages
In an underground labyrinth some men fight hordes of half-human beings who yearn to tear them apart limb from limb. One of them escapes to safety with the girl. The site of evil is obliterated in a giant explosion.
- Valley of the Mayan Goddess · 7 pages
Benedict tries to get rid of Bill, who has won the heart of the girl they both love. He shouldn't have chosen a mysterious valley in the Guatemalan jungle for his assault. The goddess of vengeance residing there sentences him to lose his mind, while Bill gets the girl anyway.
Reprinted in
Baffling Mysteries (1951), Weird (1966), The Hand of Fate (1951), Witches Tales (1969)