Adventures into Weird Worlds #16

In "Kiss of Death," a woman's plan to eliminate her husband backfires when she stages a haunted house scare using a vampire costume—only for him to dismiss it as a writer's ruse. The next night, the real horror begins when he’s bitten by a vampire, and the roles reverse in a chilling twist.

In "Mind over Matter," a man learns the ancient art of Yogi-induced object disappearance, only to find his powers tested when his friend introduces him to the radical idea of Cartesian doubt—leading to a sudden, unsettling vanishing. Written by an unknown author and illustrated by an unknown artist, this brief, eerie tale from Adventures into Weird Worlds #16 (1953) plays with perception, belief, and the thin line between mind and reality.

In "Surprise!" from *Adventures into Weird Worlds* #16 (1953), an old man consumed by love for a Gypsy girl takes a dark turn when he kills her former suitor. When she continues to mourn the dead man, a Gypsy sorceress offers a twisted solution—she summons the corpse’s ghost and forces it to trade faces with the killer. Now bearing the ghastly visage of a man long dead, the old man rushes to confront the girl, only to be met with terror.