House of Mystery #23

In "The Flying Dutchman!" from House of Mystery #23 (1954), unemployed seaman Mike Dillon is dragged aboard the cursed ghost ship and forced into grueling labor. When he rebels with a cutlass, the captain remains untouched—only to reveal the ship is no phantom, but a front for a ruthless sailing-based counterfeiting ring.

When the eccentric Londoner Derek Drew finds himself drawn to a woman named Minerva, his romantic pursuit takes a haunting turn—his past as a 16th-century highwayman, betrayed by a woman with the same name, begins to resurface in unsettling ways.

In "The Gangster and the Ghost!" from House of Mystery #23 (1954), American mobster Earl Crandall is stunned to learn he’s the long-lost heir to an English estate—and that the ancestral castle he now inherits is haunted. Skeptical and brash, he brings a so-called "ghost-breaker" to prove the spirits are just stories, but the moment he steps inside, the air grows thick with secrets from a past he never knew.

In "The Stamps of Doom!" from House of Mystery #23 (1954), collector Alex Manning uncovers a chilling cache of 13 rare stamps hidden within the quarters of a Nazi concentration camp commander—each one a grim depiction of wartime atrocities. The stamps carry a deadly curse: the next owner will meet a sudden, violent end.