Adventures into the Unknown #45

Kelkor, a centuries-old vampire cursed to walk the night, crashes during a storm and breaks his foot—forcing him to seek refuge in a hospital where he must hide his true nature among humans. There he meets Lucret, a nurse whose compassion stirs something unexpected in his cold heart, even as he struggles to suppress his vampire instincts. When Kelkor discovers Lucret's dark secret, he finds himself torn between his hunger for power and his newfound feelings for her.

A reporter and detective uncover a horrifying truth when a schoolboy vanishes into the Haunted Wood—a forest plagued by brutal murders that the local authorities blame on an escaped maniac. When they find the boy alive but undergoing a terrifying transformation under the moon's influence, they must turn to Professor Sader, a scientist whose knowledge of the occult may be their only hope of breaking the curse before more innocents fall victim to the pack of young werewolves haunting the forest.

Big Jim Dunston, a ruthless mobster who's terrorized the New York waterfront for fifteen years, plans to retire in style—building himself a lavish country estate complete with a swimming pool. But as construction nears completion, strange happenings and old ghosts from his violent past begin to converge on his dream home, leading to a reckoning he never saw coming. This tale of cosmic justice from Adventures into the Unknown #45 (1953) proves that some debts can't be paid off with money or muscle.

When Philip Valcourt inherits his brother George's vast estate in 1713, his jealous glee turns to terror in the night—a ghostly visitor confronts him over the family's ancient ring, the symbol of power over the Valcourt realm. Two years later, when the manor changes hands and the family cemetery is relocated, a shocking discovery in George's exhumed grave suggests a supernatural reckoning the constabulary never anticipated.

Doc Blane, the historian, recruits Cal, a newspaper editor, to investigate mysterious statues atop a deadly peak in the Southwest—where all previous climbers have vanished. When Cal, Bess, and their guides begin their ascent, they discover that the mountain is guarded by something far more sinister than natural disaster: a god of living stone that will stop at nothing to keep its secrets buried. As Cal fights to save Bess from a terrifying ritual, he realizes that escaping the mountain's curse may demand a price neither of them expected to pay.