Adventures into the Unknown #19

Doctor Tom arrives in the isolated town of Sunset Glen to investigate a bizarre series of deaths—twelve bodies have vanished before burial, and the frightened locals whisper of supernatural forces. When he and his fiancée Cynthia take shelter in the long-abandoned Lupus Hall, they discover a wolf's head trophy that seems disturbingly alive, its eyes growing brighter as the night deepens, and they soon learn the horrifying truth behind the disappearances: the headless specter of Lupus himself has returned after a hundred years, summoning the dead to serve an unspeakable purpose.

When Dutch settlers in early 1600s New York spot a ship miraculously surviving a terrible storm, they're relieved—until they realize it's sailing up the Hudson against all natural forces, crewed by motionless, ghostly sailors. This spectral vessel would return again and again following severe storms, earning its name and becoming a haunting legend among the Hollanders until the day New York fell to the British.

When sculptor Henri Froissart writes from beyond the grave to expose his murderer, he reveals a tale of artistic rivalry, jealousy, and supernatural vengeance that consumed his rival Pierre Lamaitre—a fellow protégé of Prof. Rameau whose hands could never match Froissart's delicate artistry. Driven mad by years of failure and humiliation, Lamaitre uses forbidden occult knowledge to steal something far more sinister than fame, setting in motion a revenge that transcends death itself. In "The Hands of Horror," writer and artist capture a deliciously twisted supernatural twist on the old master-and-student rivalry, where artistic skill becomes the weapon and the curse.

After surviving a bayonet wound to the heart during the Korean War, Bob Chase returns home only to discover he's become the target of something far worse than any battlefield—a centuries-old vampire named Volara who views him as the key to breaking an ancient curse. When Volara closes in on everyone Bob cares about, he must confront the creatures of the night that have been hunting him since Korea. Written by the creative team of Adventures into the Unknown, "The Vampire's Bane" is a pulse-pounding 1951 tale where survival on the battlefield proves easier than survival against the supernatural.

Young Campbell of Inverawe gives his word to shelter a desperate fugitive in a secret cave on Cruachan Hill in 1755 Scotland, but when his own brother is murdered—and the ghost of the man he protected begins to haunt him—Campbell finds his honor tested in ways that will echo across an ocean. "The Highland Phantom" follows a man caught between a sacred pledge and a specter's vengeance, leading to a supernatural vision that reveals the tragic cost of his choice.

Don Fraser discovers he may own Thunder Hollow, a mysterious mountain village, and travels there with his fiancée Marta to investigate—only to find the entire settlement submerged beneath a flooded pond. When Don dredges up a fragment of stone bearing strange markings, unsettling visions and warnings plague them both, urging them to leave the cursed ground undisturbed. Determined to uncover the truth, Don drains the pond, revealing a cemetery and something far more sinister stirring beneath the earth.

When a frozen corpse vanishes from a German sub-basement, Lieutenant Sam Carse of Military Intelligence suspects the victim—a Nazi experimentation survivor—may be seeking revenge on Dr. Karl Schmidt, the war criminal responsible for his death. As Carse pursues Schmidt across the Atlantic to Milwaukee, he finds himself hunted by an impossibly cold, spectral force that seems determined to reach the fugitive doctor first. A chilling race against a force that defies explanation unfolds in this eerie 1951 tale from Adventures into the Unknown.