Mystery Tales #47

In "At the Stroke of Midnight!" from Mystery Tales #47 (1956), a visitor from another dimension offers humanity the secrets of atomic energy—only to find that fear and doubt stand as strong barriers as any cosmic rift. As midnight approaches, the tension between trust and suspicion reaches a breaking point, leaving the fate of the exchange uncertain.

In "A Knock at the Door," a man’s cruel experiment takes a chilling turn when a doll crafted to resemble a hated relative begins to feel the weight of its torment—only to be saved by the very dolls it once feared. Written by an unknown hand and illustrated by an unknown artist, this eerie 1956 tale from *Mystery Tales #47* unfolds in three haunting pages, where the line between plaything and protector blurs.

In "Something Strange about Smithtown!" from Mystery Tales #47, Fred stumbles upon a town where the residents seem just a little too still—until he realizes the truth: the people of Smithtown are plant-like aliens who’ve taken on human forms, living on borrowed time. As their year-long lifespan nears its end, Fred faces a quiet choice that could change everything.

In "When They Wake Up!" from Mystery Tales #47 (1956), two cave explorers stumble upon a hidden chamber where ancient men lie in suspended animation, their advanced technology hinting at a lost civilization. When the explorers are confronted by the sleepers, they’re told humanity has fallen into corruption—only to discover the truth is far more complicated, as the sleepers quietly drug them into silence.