Dates
- Cover date
- August 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Arm of Tatra Magis · 7 pages
During the eclipse of the sun, an expedition in Mongolia makes the acquaintance of undead Khan Tatra Magis and his horde of riding mongol zombies.
- True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #23 · True Tales of Unexplained Mystery · 1 pages
"Some of the most mysterious and little known places of the world are the small villages and oases of the Sahara desert..." American photographer witnesses a duel of two Arab horsemen, who have been dead for thirty years.
- The Footlight Furies · 7 pages
Ambitious actress Inez Fane finds a mentor - a female vampire! Fane gets fame, but turns into a vampire as well. On a nightly hunt for blood, both crash blinded into Hollywood floodlights.
- True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #24 · True Tales of Unexplained Mystery · 1 pages
"In Venice, the tale is told about a huge black raven which one day suddenly swooped down and snatched a ruby necklace off the neck of the duchess of Venice..." 400 years later the same incident happens to a woman who buys the famous ruby necklace.
- The Carpenter's Cursed Creature · 7 pages
Carpenter Brinkman commits a murder. The blood touches a ten-feet-high Frankenstein-like wooden statue and makes it come alive! Brinkman tries to flee his evil creation and finally sets it on fire. He dies in the embrace of the wooden monstrosity.
- Threshold of the Forbidden · 2 pages
Female first-person narrator relates the following mystery: Every person she knew in life has suddenly vanished without any trace of existence. Narrator feels the same is going to happen to herself.
- The Silver Bell of Doom · 7 pages
Feeble-minded Luis Diego resurrects a witch who has been hanged. They flee the town, get married and live in wealth. Then Diego gets greedy and bored with his witch-wife. He binds her and burns her to death. Haunted by his action, he commits another murder, is caught and hanged by the neck.
Reprinted in
Spellbound (1960), Mystic (1960), Voodoo (1961), Zombie (1961), Weird (1966), Tales of Voodoo (1968), Tales from the Tomb (1969), Witches Tales (1969)