Weird Mysteries #10

In "Trick or Treat," a man and a woman trade their usual selves for eerie Halloween costumes from a mysterious shopkeeper, only to find the masks they don their begin to change them from within. As the party lights flicker and the night deepens, the line between costume and creature blurs—until the two are no longer playing roles, but becoming the monsters they wear.

In "The Ruby," a desperate jeweler makes a dangerous bargain with a mysterious stranger who offers him wealth in exchange for selling a Bloodstone ring. Each time the ring is sold, the jeweler keeps the money—until he begins to suspect the stranger is no ordinary man, and that the ring’s crimson stone may be tied to a deadly, centuries-old hunger.

In "Eternal Death," a desperate old scientist gambles everything on a radical experiment to reclaim youth and win the affection of a woman he loves. Using a mysterious machine, he fuses his mind with the spirit of a young man killed in a car crash—only to discover that the new body carries a fatal weakness. Now trapped in a living death, his mind awake as his body is buried, he must endure an eternity of consciousness without escape.

"Vengeance in Death" is a chilling tale from Weird Mysteries #10 (1954), where a gangster’s execution for betrayal unleashes a spectral reckoning. His ghost returns to hunt down those who killed him, only to find that their own spirits now seek retribution in turn.

In a post-apocalyptic future, two spacemen return to Earth to find a world overrun by giant, intelligent rats who’ve built cities and harnessed energy—leaving humanity nearly extinct. When one of the explorers vows to fight back, he’s led into a trap by a mysterious, beautiful woman who may not be what she seems.