Mystic #20

In "The Witch and I," a Count haunted by his mother’s dying words must confront the mystery of a faceless doll she left behind—a figure said to represent his greatest enemy. With no guidance, he gathers those he’s wronged to a banquet, hoping the doll’s curse will reveal the truth, but when he sets it alight, the flames turn on him.

In "The Door that Never Opens," a cunning constructor of the French Bastille outwits an abbot, tricking him into becoming a prison guard—only for the abbot to turn the tables in a chilling act of revenge. Locked inside the very fortress he helped build, the constructor faces the inmates he set free, with no escape in sight.

In "In the Wake of the Werewolf," a lone man stumbles upon a tense standoff between two men and a girl, only to find himself defending her when they accuse her of being a vampire. As the attackers flee behind a heavy door, the girl reveals they’re actually werewolves—and the man sees the truth through a narrow slot in the wood. Her final words, sharp with defiance, leave him stunned: “I'm just as good a werewolf as they are!”

In "His Dead Wife!" from Mystic #20 (1953), a Nazi spy marries a woman who despises him, only to murder her and hide a wireless in her coffin within the castle. When the castle is searched, her ghost emerges to guide soldiers to the coffin, exposing his treachery. The story unfolds with chilling precision, blending wartime suspense and supernatural dread in a tale that lingers long after the final page.