The Beyond #16
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"The Ghost on Television" kicks off in the eerie shadows of Devil's Island, where two escaped convicts stumble upon a third man in the jungle—offering aid, but with a presence that feels all too unnatural. When one of them stabs the stranger, the man collapses into a skeleton, leaving the survivors to wonder if the jungle itself is haunted. Cover by John Chilly, lettered in typeset (Leroy lettering), this 1952 Ace Magazines classic delivers a chilling twist on the classic escape tale.
In "The Ghost on Television," a pair of killers finds their crimes catching up to them in the most chilling way: their victim’s spirit manifests on their own television screen, delivering a haunting broadcast from beyond. As the line between screen and reality blurs, the couple faces a vengeance that steps right out of the static and into their home.
In the annals of the supernatural, no case was more baffling than the one that occurred in the famous penal institution known as Devil's Island. Two escaped convicts find a third man in the jungle, offering aid—until they stab him, only to watch him turn into a skeleton.
In "Vault of the Winged Spectres," two American engineers stumble upon long-buried Egyptian tombs, only to find themselves trapped in a deadly clash with reanimated mummies. When the resurrected queen Neferti intervenes, it’s not out of vengeance—but because she, too, never wanted to be brought back to life.
Jean MacNorn inherits her ancestral Scottish castle only to discover it carries a dark curse—one rooted in an ancient feud between her family and the Glowrys, whose piper was entombed alive within its walls centuries ago. When the sealed guard tower is breached, the vengeful spirit of Malcolm Glowry awakens at midnight, summoning the ghostly clan to hunt down the surviving MacNorns, and Jean finds herself caught between the supernatural forces unleashed and those with dangerous designs of their own. Can she survive the night when both the living and the dead have reason to want her gone?
In a fog-drenched village on the English coast, a witch bound in the form of a cat finally breaks free, seizing control of a living woman’s body to reclaim her power. With quiet menace, she begins her long-overdue reckoning—her vengeance unfolding in the shadows, one act at a time.
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Reprinted in Gwandanaland Comics #384 (2017), Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Mummies #[nn] (2017)
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