Weird Mysteries #1

When a desperate man assumes a new identity and undergoes facial surgery to escape his past during the fall of Berlin, he discovers that reinvention offers no refuge from the chaos of war. As Allied forces close in, Ernst Umlaut—now calling himself Willie Kraus—finds his carefully constructed disguise puts him in the path of unexpected conquerors with their own reckoning in mind. Morgue'n serves as your guide through this grim tale of survival and ironic fate in the rubble of a collapsing empire.

Rita Craven, a lonely woman who runs a rooming house, falls for one of her tenants, the kind-hearted salesman Dirk Keller—but when a sinister new boarder named Mr. Harrow moves in, Rita begins to suspect he may be connected to a series of brutal murders plaguing the city. As Rita wrestles with her suspicions and the fear of accusing an innocent man, the truth lurking in the attic threatens everything she holds dear.

A greedy con man marries an elderly recluse for her supposed fortune, but when a persistent ragman begins making repeated visits to the house, Rudy Elb's carefully laid plans unravel in ways he never anticipated. As the ragman's interest in the old woman's belongings grows stranger and more insistent, Rudy finds himself caught in a nightmare of his own making—one where desperation and violence only deepen his predicament.

When Claude Bretton stumbles upon his exact double—a well-known TV personality named Clyde Barker—he seizes the chance to impersonate the man and slip into a life of wealth and opportunity. But as Claude digs deeper into Barker's world, he discovers that having an identical twin is far more dangerous than he bargained for. "Twin Bads" unfolds as a tense game of deception where Claude must stay one step ahead before his impersonation unravels.

When a steel worker named Charlie Sloan catches the eye of Mabel Nolan, a beautiful secretary at his plant, he's smitten enough to ask her out—but her strange behavior and evasiveness keep him guessing. Invited finally to meet her mother on a fateful Thursday evening, Charlie discovers a secret that transforms his romantic evening into something far more sinister, with consequences he never saw coming.

When King Kronu III discovers that the beautiful Felina is cursed to transform into a cat by night, he becomes so smitten that he orders the court wizard Kiru to break her spell—but each cure meant to save her only transforms her into something worse. "Flip Fairy Tale" is a darkly comic twist on magical redemption, where every solution births a new curse, and the king's desire may prove more dangerous than any enchantment.

A man condemned to Death Row is haunted by recurring nightmares of his own execution, so vivid and torturous that he welcomes the electric chair as an escape—only to discover that death brings no relief. Morgue'n serves as our guide through Stewart Holm's horrifying discovery that some punishments extend far beyond the grave.

A man seized by an inexplicable, overwhelming thirst finds himself drawn to a mysterious little shop on a familiar street—only to discover that what he's been compelled to drink is far more sinister than he bargained for. When he confronts the glowing-eyed shopkeeper about the terrible mistake, it becomes horrifyingly clear that no mistake was made at all. "Strange Thirst" is a cunning vampire tale that turns a simple errand into a trap from which there's no escape.

When Lloyd Phelan walks free from court on a legal technicality after cold-bloodedly murdering Matt Neilson, his gentle brother Tom believes he sees a genuine change of heart taking root—but Lloyd's reformation masks something far more sinister. As Tom clings to hope that his brother might yet become a better man, Lloyd's true nature reasserts itself with devastating consequences, forcing Tom to become judge and executioner in a way the law never could. "Capital Punishment" is a taut tale of fraternal ties twisted by evil and the price of vigilante justice from Weird Mysteries #1 (1959).