(August 1951)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Ace Books, Inc.
- Brand
-
An Ace Magazine
Stalked by a Nameless Dread
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Gambler Durak hits it rich on the french coast, after having made a deal with the devil. "Monsieur Lucifer" claims his soul, of course. In trying to back out of the deal, Durak only gets in deeper. The fires of hell await his soul.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #7
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "In 1932, in a small Connecticut town, Donald Scott committed a murder..."
Artist Scott paints a portrait of a strange man. As the painting attacks him, he slashes it with a knife. Simultaneously the stranger is slashed. Police bring Scott, who claims to have killed the devil, to the madhouse.
Vengeance of the Undead
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Four monsters break loose from a side show. They have been brought to life by the evil midget ringmaster. Animal tamer Zita tries to command the bunch, buf fails in the end. Turning on her, the monsters can be captured and hanged.
- Reprints
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in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#1 (April 1976) [reworked] which is reprinted - in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v11#4 (December 1978)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #8
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "On a certain road in Wales, a certain narrow spot is held in awe by the local peasantry..."
A farmer witnesses a wagon full of headless ghosts pass him by in the night.
Sign of the Smiling Spectre
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A husband drives his wife to suicide. Her ghost continues to haunt him seeking revenge. The man's brother cannot prevent him from committing suicide as well. The woman is avenged.
The Strange Cult
text story / 2 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Two men battle some madmen who try to resurrect dead bodies.
Indexer Notes
Again one of those Ace text stories, where there's a big confusing frightening battle scene in the first half, and the second half of the story tries to explain what just happened - and possibly why.
The Haunted Horse
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- A boy and his horse are best friends. They enter a race and win. The horse is sold and the boy goes looking for him. The boy catches pneumonia and dies, but his ghost rides a final race with his beloved horse called Spook.
- Reprints
- in Baffling Mysteries (Ace Magazines, 1951 series) #26 (October 1955)
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Table of Contents
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[no title indexed]
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1.
Stalked by a Nameless Dread
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2.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #7
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
3.
Vengeance of the Undead
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4.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #8
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
5.
Sign of the Smiling Spectre
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6.
The Strange Cult
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7.
The Haunted Horse
This issue was modified by, among others
- Tillmann Courth
- Michael Hoskin
- Jim Van Dore
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