Mystery Comics Digest #11

In "The Green Monkey," unscrupulous fortune hunter Marty Hober steals a jade monkey statue from an island temple, only to suffer a terrifying and rapid decline in age. Later, his partner Max Burke takes the artifact for himself, uncovering its strange and unsettling power in ways neither man could have predicted.

In "The Devil's Armchair," Martha Harris surprises her husband with an antique chair for his birthday, unaware it’s haunted by a deadly secret. Though her husband adores it, anyone else who sits in it is violently stung—until Martha learns the chair’s grim past, tied to a man named Jean Maraque and a woman he murdered. When she tries to rid herself of the cursed piece, she discovers too late that some things can’t be escaped.

In "Ring of Fear," a string of mysterious deaths links each victim to a famed Aztec Ring, starting with John Ruskin and spreading to every person who has held it. His daughter, haunted by the pattern, races against time to uncover the truth before the ring claims another life—only to discover the chilling twist that the ring itself was never real.

In New Orleans during Mardi Gras, a young woman named Beth Lawrence struggles to find lodging as the city swells with revelers. A chance encounter with a man named Peter Norville pulls her into a night of eerie intrigue, where the past and present blur in unsettling ways.

In "The Crystal Ball," a cunning thief and a once-phony fortune-teller—now bound by wartime loyalty—track down a hidden cache of Nazi collaborators’ wealth, drawn by the mystic glow of a crystal ball. But when the thief betrays the charlatan, framing him as a traitor to seize the treasure for himself, the imprisoned man swears vengeance from behind bars, his final words echoing: "My crystal ball will seek you out!"

In "A Very Strange Burial," the sudden death of Sydney Clybourne in a seemingly random accident takes a dark turn when investigators discover a book on his person detailing a chilling tale from his past. The story inside recounts a safari in Tanganyika, where Sydney and his companion Malcolm Billings heard whispers of a mysterious ritual performed by a local tribe upon the death of their chief—a tradition that now feels far too close to home.