Blue Bolt Weird Tales #119 (1953)

Jeff Barton, a wealthy man drawn by greed and curiosity, wins a mysterious carved chest at an auction, unaware of its deadly history. As he and his companion Joan leave the sale, they are overcome by choking fumes in a dark alley, and Jeff awakens to find grotesque, laughing demons emerging from the chest, threatening their lives.

Winfield Corrigan, a retired ship's captain, dismisses local legends about his new Southern Georgia mansion, where the previous owner supposedly died by suicide in the basement. When a mysterious moan draws him downstairs, he confronts a spectral figure that claims to be trapped by the very word "evil"—a word it cannot bear, for spelled backward, it is "live."

Lieutenant Jock Macready finds himself entangled in a dangerous web after a scuffle with a German civilian in a postwar Berlin cabaret, only to be arrested and assigned to secretly monitor Gretchen Bauer, the singer he’s fallen for. When a mysterious metal fragment and a cryptic message reveal the civilian was a messenger for a rogue scientist with plans to reach Earth from another world, Macready is thrust into a mission that pulls him into a remote-controlled rocket ship bound for an unknown destination. As the ship hurtles through space, he begins to suspect the journey may lead not just to another planet—but to a fate far stranger than he ever imagined.

In the heart of the Congo jungle, Jo-Jo and his companion Tanee stumble upon a long-lost city abandoned after a catastrophic explosion, its ruins now a haunting testament to a scientist's deadly obsession. As they explore the eerie, overgrown metropolis, they uncover remnants of a twisted utopia and face dangers both mechanical and human, all while unraveling the dark secrets of its forgotten creator.