Mystic #35

In "I Found the Girl in the Blue Glass Bottle!", a curious shopkeeper discovers a mysterious blue glass bottle with the power to shrink people—until one of his victims, a young woman, turns the magic against him, vanishing into the bottle’s depths as he himself begins to shrink, fading into nothing.

In "Vengeance of the Tiger Queen," big game hunter Deerson ignores warnings from the natives about the "tiger people" and kills a noble tiger in Sumatra, severing its head. Haunted by visions of a headless man and drawn by the mysterious princess Tigrina, he returns to the jungle, only to face a terrifying transformation as she reveals her true form and claims vengeance for her tiger husband.

A gambler’s sudden luck turns sinister when he acquires the talisman of Cesare Borgia, a relic that brings wealth beyond measure—yet demands a terrible price. No matter how he tries, he cannot rid himself of the cursed object, each attempt ending in failure and dread. As the weight of his choices closes in, the line between fortune and damnation grows thinner than ever.