Mister Mystery #5

In the remote mountains of Roumania, Professor Blander and his guide Mogar stumble upon a forgotten church hiding a massive coffin sealed with thirteen ancient locks. As the professor deciphers a series of mysterious stone slabs over two harrowing weeks, each one causes a lock to snap open—unraveling a dread that grows with every click.

In "The Ghost of the Whistling Corpse!" from Mister Mystery #5 (1952), Dennis Langley, desperate for his foster-mother’s inheritance, stages a chilling scheme: he impersonates her late husband, Jeffrey, by whistling the man’s favorite opera aria. With the help of his crooked psychiatrist friend Drake, Langley pushes her toward madness—until the corpse of Jeffrey himself appears, freezing their plans in terror.

A stool pigeon named Benny Lincoln refuses to stay dead after his own murder, escaping his coffin during his funeral with vengeance on his mind and an embalmed corpse's grim advantages on his side. With a stolen gun and nothing but time, Benny methodically hunts down the men who killed him—only to find that his unholy return draws the attention of both the law and the very gangsters who thought they'd silenced him for good. This 1952 crime thriller from *Mister Mystery* proves that sometimes the deadliest threat is one that refuses to accept its own demise.

In "Carniverous Cargo!" from Mister Mystery #5 (1952), a coast guard patrol investigates a ghostly vessel drifting off the shore, only to find its crew eerily lifeless—until a strange, black-dotted living goo begins to spread, turning the men into mindless zombies before their eyes.