Sinister Tales #64

In "He Came From Nowhere!", a desperate fugitive makes a desperate deal with a mysterious stranger claiming to be from the future—offering to swap lives and escape his pursuers. But when he arrives in the future, he finds himself trapped in a body that isn’t his, mistaken for a shape-shifting criminal from another world, and locked away by authorities who see only deception in his new form.

In "Seven Long Years," a former racketeer attempts to leave his criminal past behind, spending seven years living a quiet life after breaking a mirror and swearing off crime. But when he returns to his old ways and accidentally shatters another mirror during his first robbery, the cycle begins again—leading to a fate that echoes his past.

In "The Face!", a thief who steals a sacred ruby from an Indian Lama’s temple is haunted by the cursed image of the Lama’s face, appearing everywhere he turns. Desperate to escape, he flees on a train, only to find the face following him even as he pulls the emergency cord and leaps into the unknown—just as the train crosses a perilous high trestle bridge.

In "The Mysterious Mr. P!", a famed clarinetist with a shadowy past finds himself cornered by communist forces who demand he serve as a propaganda tool. When he refuses, he turns the tables in a daring escape that leaves his captors soaring into the sky—revealing his true identity as the legendary Pied Piper.