Uncanny Tales #10

In "The Strange Magic of Master Khan!" from Uncanny Tales #10 (1975), a ruthless pirate crew steals the vessel of an enigmatic Asian sorcerer, unaware they’ve awakened a wrath beyond their reckoning. When the ship’s owner, Master Khan, unleashes his ancient curse, the pirates find themselves trapped in a shrinking vessel, sealed inside a glass bottle—forever adrift in a fate far stranger than death.

In a grim alleyway under a flickering streetlight, a desperate ventriloquist faces his final act—when the real puppet master is revealed in the most chilling way. Hugo, cornered by gangsters over a debt, meets his end, but the truth behind his performance is far more unsettling than anyone expected. The Dummy, silent until now, has been pulling the strings all along.

In "The Man in the Glass Cage," sound engineer Joe Phelps becomes obsessed with Anita Rogers after she rejects him, turning his technical expertise into a weapon. As he traps her in a glass cage and unleashes deadly sound waves, the truth slowly unravels—Anita, secretly hard of hearing, remains unharmed while Joe's own creation turns against him.

In the quiet hum of a suburban night, a weary police officer patrols a seemingly ordinary street—unaware that above him, two alien beings wage a desperate, silent battle across the rooftops. The stillness of the neighborhood masks a hidden war, and the officer’s routine patrol may be the only thing standing between peace and chaos.