(January 1952)
Ace Magazines,
1951 Series
Macabre Ritual in Witches' Glen
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Witchcraft is at work in New England. A young couple witness "the exchange": a witch transforms her soul into the body of a freshly killed girl. The couple escape, but are stalked by the witch in her new body. Struggling with the man, she falls to her death.
Baffling Mysteries #3
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "In the early days of the American west, towns seemed to spring up almost overnight..."
When they are deserted later on, they become "ghost towns". A tourist visits such a ghost town, encountering actual ghosts. - Keywords
- supernatural
Fatal Rendezvous
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Warner Davis dies on the operating table, goes to heaven, but is sent back, because his time has not yet come. Davis awakes with the gift of clairvoyance and starts warning people about their deaths. No one believes him. Tortured by his knowledge, he is finally happy to die.
Baffling Mysteries #4
Baffling Mysteries / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- "In 1897, Pierre Paitel, a painter, fell in love with Emilie, beautiful daughter of the count of Monceau..."
The count forbids their relationship. The painter goes to Paris, the girl dies of broken heart, believing her lover forgot about her. - Keywords
- supernatural
Horror on Canvas
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Art painter Blake Roberts dies in a car crash, but awakens in the morgue as a deformed living dead man. He paints himself an evil picture, which guides his rotten soul. Roberts goes on a mission to destroy beauty and kill people. While struggling with his ex-fiancées new lover, the monster gets stabbed and melts away - into a heap of bones.
Indexer Notes
Unusually and uniquely bad artwork for Ace. Could be a swipe artist's singular try.
Peril of the Half-Dead
text story / 2 pages
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
Indexer Notes
This story is missing on the DCM scan.
Black Magic in a Slinky Gown
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Leonore Black is a beautiful woman, but also able to transform herself into a giant black widow spider. In this form she kills men who do harm to spiders: collectors and zoologists. The human black widow meets her fate when stung to death by a swarm of wasps.
- Reprints
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in Haunted Horror (IDW, 2012 series) #1 (October 2012) which is reprinted
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Indexer Notes
Tentative credits from Haunted Horror (IDW Publishing, 2012 series) #1.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
Macabre Ritual in Witches' Glen
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2.
Baffling Mysteries #3
Baffling Mysteries -
3.
Fatal Rendezvous
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4.
Baffling Mysteries #4
Baffling Mysteries -
5.
Horror on Canvas
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6.
Peril of the Half-Dead
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7.
Black Magic in a Slinky Gown
This issue was modified by, among others
- Tillmann Courth
- Peter Croome
- Frode Dreier
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Dan Kocher
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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