Adventures into the Unknown #14 (1950)

Jo and Lou, a newlywed couple on a Caribbean honeymoon, find themselves drawn into a chilling mystery after receiving a cryptic note summoning the recording engineer Lou to an isolated street in Port-au-Prince. As they wander the city’s outskirts, they’re pursued by a silent, relentless figure that seems more machine than man—its movements eerily precise, its presence tied to the island’s dark legends of voodoo and the living dead.

In the eerie depths of the New York Blade’s vast newspaper morgue, young researcher Bernard Hampton begins his night shift, determined to prove his thesis on historical violence—despite warnings from his predecessor, the broken-down former night clerk. As he delves into old papers, a growing sense of dread sets in when the very stories he reads seem to come alive, stirring shadows and whispers from the past.

In a chilling tale of identity and invention, detective Lt. Dan Jansen investigates a murder confession that leads him to a victim who looks exactly like the suspect—Homer, a scientist who claims his own duplicate is a soulless, power-hungry doppelgänger created by his sub-atomic duplicator. As the line between man and machine blurs, Dan finds himself facing a terrifying truth: the duplicator’s reach may extend beyond the original, and his own mind may not be safe from the very machine meant to expose the crime.

In "The Face in the Moonstone," scientist Van and his fiancée Lorna journey to a secluded French abbey for a scientific expedition, only to stumble upon the haunting presence of Lilith, the ancient Queen of Darkness. Written by an unknown author and illustrated by an unknown artist, the story unfolds with a chilling sense of dread as the past refuses to stay buried.

In the shadowed Black Forest of postwar Germany, a counter-intelligence agent and his partner go on a mission to protect an anti-Nazi lecturer, suspecting the remnants of the fanatical Werewolf Underground are targeting him. When the lecturer is brutally murdered and wolf-like tracks appear at the scene, the agent and his sidekick pursue a mysterious figure through the dense woods—only to be drawn into a web of deception when a local woman named Marlene enters the story. As the hunt intensifies, the line between myth and conspiracy begins to blur, leaving the agent questioning who among the villagers might be hiding a deadly secret.