Adventures into the Unknown #11

In "Marriage of Death," an aged Marian is stunned to find her friend Annette Whitney unchanged by time—radiant and young, though she should be old. Annette confesses she married Pierre Le Mort, a man who is Death itself, and though she died long ago, she remains frozen in youth, trapped by his love and unable to escape the mortal world.

In the remote African wilderness of Ruanda, the ruthless ivory traders Congo Smith and Limey Gubbins face a reckoning when they brutalize the witch doctor Nyoko for grinding tusks into powder for his sacred rituals—only to trigger a stampede of massive elephants that destroys their trading post. Determined to claim the herd's ivory for themselves, Congo forces a native guide to reveal the location of the mysterious Realm of the Mist Gods, and he and Limey push into an eerie, mist-shrouded landscape where compasses fail, tracks vanish, and the jungle itself seems to resist their advance. As the two men grow increasingly isolated and unmoored, they discover that some powers cannot be conquered by guns or cruelty alone.

Brilliant map-maker David Jennings discovers he's inadvertently used his late father's enchanted ink to create a real world from a mere drawing—and when he and his fiancée Marie are transported into this landscape, they find themselves exploring a realm that shouldn't exist, complete with medieval forests and a mysterious castle. As they venture deeper into these unearthly mountains, strange and terrible forces begin to close in around them, suggesting that some things were never meant to be drawn into being. This is a tale of occult creation gone terrifyingly wrong, where the line between imagination and reality dissolves in the most nightmarish way possible.

Deep-sea diver Tom Stubbs ventures to the Caribbean island of Girua seeking sunken treasure, but his dive into the ocean depths becomes a harrowing struggle against the sea's most fearsome and mysterious force—a supernatural current the locals call the Eel. When Stubbs finds himself trapped and at the mercy of this unknowable power, a native islander named Tauro attempts a daring rescue, only to set in motion a chain of events that will test whether greed or respect for the sea's ancient mysteries will prevail.

When a ghostly apparition begins offering Elliott Daingerfield precise artistic guidance in the dead of night, the eminent painter discovers that this phantom critic's spectral counsel may be the key to creating true masterpieces. Over more than three decades, the mysterious specter appears at crucial moments to steer Daingerfield's brush toward perfection—but the artist wonders about the identity and nature of his otherworldly mentor.

A man with a murderous secret discovers an antique spyglass whose strange power lets him kill with just a look—and he wastes no time exploiting it for wealth and control. As Mac MacAuley grows intoxicated with his newfound ability, using it to rig fights and races, he sets himself on a collision course with forces he may not fully understand. This tale from Adventures into the Unknown #11 (1950) explores the corrupting nature of unchecked power in eight gripping pages.