Uncanny Tales #22

In a cold, tense East Germany, a string of mysterious agent deaths baffles the authorities—until suspicion lands on a seemingly ordinary undertaker whose quiet transport of corpses across the border hints at something far more sinister. The Unctuous Undertaker unfolds with creeping dread, as a man who moves between life and death may be more than he appears.

In "Half-Man!" from Uncanny Tales #22 (1954), an android who fought alongside humans in a war against space aliens returns to Earth hoping for a future with the human woman he loves—only to find that peace has erased the fragile trust they’d built. Though he once dreamed of marriage, she now avoids him, as if their bond had never been.

In "Seeing Eye," a desperate criminal targets a wealthy man’s seeing eye dog, believing the animal is merely a guide—unaware that the man can see and that the dog is, in truth, a blind werewolf retired from his monstrous past. The story unfolds with a tense game of deception, where sight and blindness blur in ways that challenge every assumption.

In "The Horror of Sleepy Hollow!" from Uncanny Tales #22 (1954), a man’s scheme to scare off his rival by impersonating the legendary headless horseman backfires when the rival outdoes him—turning the tables and having the man committed to an asylum. But when the real headless horseman appears, it’s clear that some legends aren’t meant to be played with.