Midnight Mystery #4

When Vic Latimer, Grace Farwell, and Dave Henderson take a fateful trip to Magic Mountain, their tangled romance takes an unexpected turn—years later, fate offers a chance to rewrite what was lost. In this timeless fantasy tale, old feelings resurface as the past and present collide.

In "The Spectral Stampede," two uranium prospectors in a remote canyon survive a terrifying encounter with a stampeding herd of buffalo—only to find themselves unharmed. When an old-timer from a nearby town explains the phenomenon, he claims the animals were the ghosts of a herd slaughtered a century prior, leaving the men to wonder what truly lies beneath the dust of the old West.

In the wilds of the Canadian Northwest, hunter and storyteller Pierre Gordin stumbles upon a crashed alien spacecraft and a monstrous creature from another world—what he calls the Sky Beast. As the metallic Rankar wreaks havoc, Pierre must use his wits and courage to outsmart the beast, aided by telepathic aliens who need it captured for galactic reasons. The story builds on the tension between legend and reality, as Pierre faces a challenge that defies all logic and survival.

In the eerie stillness of the English moors at the turn of the century, Inspector Blazer arrives to investigate the disappearance of adventurer Gordon Barry, who vanished after claiming to have encountered the ghost of Celia Crane—a spectral woman said to wander the countryside searching for the road to London. As the inspector listens to Barry’s unsettling account of a phantom carriage and a storm that followed every sighting, he begins to question whether the line between legend and madness is as clear as it seems.