Unusual Tales #25

Wanda Westlake and her director husband Carlton Danes lease a mysterious castle from Count Rudolfo to use as a film location, but their host's behavior grows increasingly unsettling as strange and supernatural events unfold within its ancient walls. When Wanda encounters a sinister presence that claims to have waited centuries for her beauty, she realizes the castle harbors far darker secrets than either of them bargained for.

In this 1960 tale, young Jody Wyatt insists his toy horse has come alive, and that a mysterious friend named Unkaben hiding in the closet can make impossible things happen—but his skeptical father George dismisses it all as runaway imagination, even as household salt vanishes without explanation. When George finally forbids Jody from believing in Unkaben, the boy obeys, and the strange occurrences stop as mysteriously as they began. A haunting question lingers: what was real, and what price comes from choosing not to wonder?

A dying man's young nephew refuses to accept the inevitable and ventures into an abandoned drugstore to seek help from a pharmacist who's been dead for ten years—only to return with medicine that defies all medical science in "The Corner Drugstore." Arthur Pimms's mysterious recovery leaves his doctors baffled and raises questions about where the boy truly found his cure. A touching tale about childhood faith and the power of love that challenges what we think we know about the possible.

In "Frozen Terrors," a team of explorers in 1960 unleashes ancient horrors when their steam-powered machines thaw a frozen Greenland glacier—revealing a Viking ship, a still-living dragon, and two warring alien giants, their battle reignited after centuries of ice-bound silence.