The Unexpected #162

When thirteen skeptics form a club to prove superstitions are nonsense, their bold experiment turns deadly—each member meets a gruesome end not by fate, but after touching a poisoned gavel to shatter a mirror. Fred Kromchick, Bernie Kalb, Clara Costello, and the others soon learn that some legends aren’t meant to be tested.

Carter Blake is smitten with Jean Brewster—so much so he’s ready to marry her without knowing her past. But when he digs into old newspaper clippings, he uncovers a chilling pattern: three of Jean’s former husbands died after her kiss. Now, as his love deepens, he’s left wondering if the woman he’s falling for might be more than she seems.

In "Master of the Voodoo Machine!", inventor Jon Garson unleashes a strange and dangerous power from his duplicator machine, one that blurs science with the occult. When he tries to eliminate his romantic rival, Morgan Wharton, using the machine’s eerie influence, he soon discovers that some forces don’t care who pulls the strings—especially when the past comes back to haunt him.