Adventures into the Unknown #25 (1951)

In the remote Naga Hills of Assam, a lone explorer arrives to investigate rumors of a fearsome were-tiger, only to find the tribe’s terror rooted in a mysterious figure known as Tigra—and a secret that blurs the line between myth and madness. As he infiltrates the village, posing as a tiger-man, he grows entangled in a web of deception, discovering that the so-called supernatural creature may be something far more human—and far more dangerous.

In the aftermath of a plane crash, Dr. John Kirkwood performs a radical surgery on Dru Parry, grafting her with new corneas taken from a mysterious man who died in the wreckage—though the truth is far stranger. As Dru’s vision returns, she begins seeing things no one else can: spectral figures and eerie presences, including a man she remembers from her hospital room, now confirmed to be a corpse that vanished. With the doctor realizing the donor was not human but a zombie whose eyes allow it to see the dead, Dru must confront the horrifying possibility that her restored sight is a cursed window into a realm she never meant to see.

When art expert Richard Small examines a portrait of the legendary 18th-century pirate Captain Cutt, he’s startled when the figure suddenly comes to life after an infrared scan—only to vanish moments later, leaving behind a trail of chaos. Now stranded in 20th-century New York, the spectral pirate abducts Nancy, Richard’s fiancée, and sets off on a wild chase through the city’s fog-drenched streets, determined to reclaim his buried treasure.

In the shadowy Adirondacks, Alan Hartwood stumbles upon a supernatural gathering of ghosts, zombies, and vampires answering a mysterious summons—only to realize they’re plotting a coordinated assault on *Adventures into the Unknown*, the very magazine he writes for. Racing back to New York, he finds his office under siege by vampires and his editor menaced by werewolves, all while trying to prove the truth before his own colleagues dismiss him as a madman.

In the early 1850s, Dr. Karl Henderson of Charleston, South Carolina, becomes obsessed with the idea that the dead are not truly at rest, dedicating himself to communing with spirits after being mocked for his radical beliefs. He begins treating the dead as patients, seeking to bring them back through sheer will—until one fateful night when he encounters a ghostly woman who refuses to return to her grave. As dawn approaches and the line between life and death blurs, their impossible bond is tested, and the doctor makes a desperate vow to keep her spirit with him forever.

Jo, a young woman working in a castle, is drawn into a mysterious past when she encounters the ghost of Inez de Castro, the ill-fated lover of Prince Dom Pedro of Portugal. As Jo sketches the spectral figure, she becomes entangled in a centuries-old tragedy that blurs the line between memory and the present.