Strange Mysteries #10

In "The Dimensional Knife," a 20th-century man receives a strange blade from a vampire-monster in the far future—139 trillion AD. The knife demands a terrible price: three lives, each sent forward in time to feed the ancient creature. When the final cut comes, it’s not the monster who falls—but the man who wielded the blade.

In "Map of Death," two brothers set sail after their dying uncle’s cryptic warning to destroy a mysterious map, unaware their journey will plunge them into a deadly reckoning. As greed and suspicion take hold, one brother commits a terrible act, only to be haunted by the ghost of the uncle who demands the truth—leading to a revelation that shatters everything they thought they knew.

In "Revenge Can Be Fatal!" from Strange Mysteries #10 (1954), a scarred doctor haunted by betrayal sets a deadly course after his assistant and wife nearly kill him. When he discovers his wife dead and the assistant dead by his own hand, he uses forbidden means to bring the man back—only to face a final, fatal reckoning.

In the quiet hush of night, a woman named Jo finds herself hunted by creatures that emerge only when the light fades. When her father falls victim to their unseen grasp, she turns to an expert in the occult, who wields a crystal’s radiant power to banish the darkness and its horrors.