Adventures into the Unknown #54

A vengeful specter on horseback spreads a withering curse through a valley, draining the life from everything in its path—and Dobie soon learns the ghastly rider is Larabee, a murderous rancher hanged sixty years before who swore he'd return. As the supernatural blight creeps toward Knob Peak, Dobie and Amy race to uncover why Larabee is riding back to his own grave and find a way to stop the "Dry Death" consuming the land and everyone on it. This 1954 tale from *Adventures into the Unknown* #54 is a bone-chilling race against a supernatural force that leaves no living thing untouched.

In "The Man Who Lost His Face," plastic surgeon Dr. Camp experiments with a revolutionary compound that softens bone, allowing for unprecedented surgical reshaping. When he uses it to disfigure the gangster Mike Swayne, the results spiral beyond control—leaving both men trapped in a nightmare of identity and consequence.

Two hardened criminals fleeing into the Australian outback unwittingly stumble into a volcanic wasteland where living things—transformed entirely to glass by an ancient eruption—have survived for centuries. When Treeby and Jackson encounter these crystalline beings and are themselves infected by the creatures' liquid-glass blood, they realize they've become something far more dangerous than fugitives: the seed of a plague that will sweep across the world. What begins as an escape becomes the end of everything, as the glassy horde spreads beyond the island and humanity faces its final day.

In "One Bright and Shining Day," two escaped convicts stumble upon a hidden jungle where crystalline beings move like living glass—until one shatters, unleashing a mysterious liquid that petrifies everything it touches. As the island begins to crystallize around them, the men find themselves trapped in a slow, silent transformation.