Web of Mystery
#12
(August 1952)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- A. A. Wyn, Inc.
- Brand
-
Ace
- Editing
- Fred Gardener (uncredited)
The Arm of Tatra Magis
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Reprints
-
in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #28 (1962) -
in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v5#4 (August 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted - in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v5#5 (October 1973)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #23
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "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
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Reprints
-
in Golden Comics (Univers Comics, 2009 series) #1 - in Voodoo (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #8 ([no date])
- in Mystic (L. Miller & Son, 1960 series) #29 (1962)
- in Tales from the Tomb (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#3 (June 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v4#7 (December 1972)
- in Terror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#4 (August 1974), #v8#3 (October 1977)
- in Weird Vampire Tales (Eerie Publications, 1979 series) #v3#1 (April 1979)
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True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #24
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "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
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Zombie (L. Miller & Son, 1961 series) #9 ([circa 1961])
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #29 (1962)
- in Tales of Voodoo (Eerie Publications, 1968 series) #v4#4 (July 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v7#3 (August 1976)
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Indexer Notes
Robert Turner lists this as one of the stories he wrote from late 1950 - 1952, in his book "Some of My Best Friends Are Writers..." (1970).
Threshold of the Forbidden
text story / 2 pages
- Synopsis
- 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
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- 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.
- Reprints
- in Spellbound (L. Miller & Son, 1960 ? series) #28 (1962)
- in Witches Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v3#3 (June 1971) [reworked] which is reprinted
- in Weird (Eerie Publications, 1966 series) #v6#7 (December 1972)
- in Horror Tales (Eerie Publications, 1969 series) #v6#5 (October 1974)
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in Tales of Horror (Gredown, 1975 series) #8 ([1978])
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Arm of Tatra Magis
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2.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #23
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
3.
The Footlight Furies
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4.
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery #24
True Tales of Unexplained Mystery -
5.
The Carpenter's Cursed Creature
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6.
Threshold of the Forbidden
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7.
The Silver Bell of Doom
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- Tillmann Courth
- Dan Kurdilla
- Edgar Loftin
- Jim Van Dore
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