Mystery Tales #20

In "The Snake!" from Mystery Tales #20 (1954), a man's desperate act to eliminate his wife takes a deadly turn when he steals her sister's pet cobra from the pit, hoping to frame the sister. With a cold calculation that unravels quickly, he sets a trap that only deepens the mystery, leaving the police to see through his lie.

In "The Stone Men!", a lone diver stumbles upon a hidden grotto guarded by eerie, human-shaped coral figures—only to discover they’re not statues, but the petrified remains of past explorers, frozen in place and slowly claimed by the sea. The story unfolds with chilling quiet, blending wonder and dread as the ocean’s secret reveals itself in slow, unsettling detail.

In "Too Many Corpses!" from Mystery Tales #20 (1954), a stubborn miner presses forward after his drill breaks into an old cemetery, ignoring his crew’s unease. When the tunnel collapses, he’s trapped beneath the earth—left for dead by men who believe they’ve sealed his fate.

In "Crime Wave," a desperate criminal in Chile schemes to manipulate the weather report, forcing the local meteorologist to warn of a tidal wave so he can loot the fleeing townspeople. But when the forecast turns terrifyingly real, his greed becomes his undoing—caught between his own deception and a natural disaster he never saw coming.

In "The Man on the Moon," a lone robot pilot navigates a perilous journey to the lunar surface, his calm precision earning the awe of the human crew who believe him to be one of their own—until a revealing tattoo on his arm exposes his true nature.