Uncanny Tales #52

In "Terror from Outer Space," Mandrake the Magician is drawn into a cosmic threat when a fugitive from the alien world Xeni crash-lands on Earth with a mysterious mineral. With Monark, the ruler of Xeni, warning him of the danger, Mandrake must protect Mary from a mind-controlled takeover while tracking an alien who swaps bodies to evade capture. As the space authorities close in, the fate of Earth hangs in the balance.

When Captain William Reynolds and his crew stumble upon the legendary Flying Dutchman, they’re tempted by the promise of gold—ignoring the desperate warnings of the ghostly crew. Though Thomas Clark refuses the treasure, the others are cursed to join the spectral crew, vanishing forever into the ship’s cursed fate.

In "The Gentle Old Man!", Gregory "Greedy" Grundy finds himself trapped in a chilling collection of miniature people, each a frozen echo of a past era—preserved not by memory, but by a time traveler’s strange, unsettling hobby. The story unfolds as the man once known for his ruthless grip on rent and property now faces a far stranger kind of captivity, where the past is not just remembered, but contained.

In a quiet home where the walls hum with quiet magic, Linda Brown—confined to a wheelchair—starts sleepwalking, her chair gliding through the house and out into the sea. Her aunt and uncle, Aunt May and Uncle Ben, watch in sorrowful wonder, knowing their mermaid ward was never meant to stay on land.

In "Behind the Dreadful Door!", Joshua Carstairs, a struggling painter, ventures into a forbidden room he believes holds the secret behind a legendary artist’s work—only to find himself drawn into a haunting world where supernatural beings pose as models. As the line between creator and creation blurs, Derek Weems finds himself caught in a surreal transformation, his reality reshaped by forces he never imagined.