The Beyond
#16
(October 1952)
Ace Magazines,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Unity Publishing Corp.
- Brand
-
Ace
- Editing
- ?
[The Chessboard of Humanity]
cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- John Chilly [as Chilly]
- Inks
- John Chilly [as Chilly]
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset (Leroy lettering)
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Death decides mortals' fates on a chessboard.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- chess
in Indexer Notes
Art credit from Don Magnus of Heritage Galleries, from original signed art, 3/7/2007.
The Ghost on Television
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A murderous couple is haunted by their victim, which appears on their television screen. A broadcast from death in person announces their doom. The victim steps out of the TV and takes his revenge!
True Tales of the Supernatural #31
True Tales of the Supernatural / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "In the annals of the supernatural, no case was more baffling than the one that occurred in the famous penal institution known as Devil's Island..."
Two escaped convicts meet a third one in the jungle who wants to help them. When they stab the unwanted partner, he turns into a skeleton.
Vault of the Winged Spectres
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two American engineers discover ancient Egyptian tombs and get in a fight with living mummies. Resurrected queen Neferti helps them escape, because she didn’t wish to be resurrected in the first place.
- Reprints
Curse of the Midnight Piper
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- When a tomb in a Scottish castle is opened, ghostly clan wars flare up again. The army of ghosts can be repelled with fire.
True Tales of the Supernatural #32
True Tales of the Supernatural / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "In 1933, Richard Dore, a young American archeologist, was digging through some Aztec ruins in Central Mexico..."
In an underground torture chamber Dore finds a fountain from which still spurts human blood.
The Uninvited Guest
text story / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- In Barcelona a crypt is opened and the ghost of Benedicto wakened. Benedicto stalks Don Lopez, the descendant of the man who killed him for gold.
They Burned a Witch
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- On the English coast, a witch trapped in the body of a cat, can escape her confinement. She takes control of another woman’s body and starts her witching work again. She doesn’t rest until she has taken revenge on all of those who caused her predicament.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[The Chessboard of Humanity]
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1.
The Ghost on Television
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2.
True Tales of the Supernatural #31
True Tales of the Supernatural -
3.
Vault of the Winged Spectres
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4.
Curse of the Midnight Piper
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5.
True Tales of the Supernatural #32
True Tales of the Supernatural -
6.
The Uninvited Guest
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7.
They Burned a Witch
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