Uncanny Tales #6

In "Surprise!" from Uncanny Tales #6 (1974), a lonely old man, consumed by grief and obsession, seeks a twisted way to win back the heart of a Gypsy girl who mourns a dead lover. With the help of a mysterious Gypsy woman, he summons the spirit of the deceased man and trades faces with the corpse, hoping to reclaim her affection. But when he finally stands before her, her scream echoes in the night—her beloved’s face now wears his own hollow eyes.

In "I Know the Secret of the Poltergeist!", Larry Winters, a man with a secret of his own, tries to convince his wife Rita that the strange happenings in their new home have rational causes—while secretly being the source of them. As he digs into the disturbances, his efforts to maintain a human facade grow increasingly strained, blurring the line between truth and deception.

In "You're Going to Die Yesterday," a man attempts to alter his fate by using a time machine to eliminate the father of his rival before the man was born—only to discover too late that he's erased his own past instead. The story unfolds with chilling precision, turning a calculated act of revenge into a devastating personal reckoning.