Out of the Night #1 (1952)

In "The Return of the Werewolf," Dave’s playful gesture—giving his fiancée Ginny a wolf skin as a joke—takes a terrifying turn when a real werewolf arrives at her home, drawn to the pelt he’d brought. The story unfolds with chilling precision, blending suspense and dread as the line between mockery and menace blurs.

In the eerie aftermath of a murder, Inspector Walton consults an occult horologist to uncover the truth behind a clock that stopped at 3 a.m.—the precise time of the crime. Using a mystical incantation, the horologist unlocks the clock’s spirit, revealing a ghostly reenactment of the murder that implicates the victim’s business partner, John Forsythe. As the clock’s chimes echo through the night, the killer’s guilt is exposed in a chilling confrontation that leaves no room for doubt—though the justice delivered is far from conventional.

In the quiet aftermath of her parents’ death, model Libby Carey returns to her family’s storage to sort through old belongings, drawn to a mirror and a collection of mother-of-pearl-framed portraits—especially one of her great aunt Sophie, a woman obsessed with pearls. As Libby begins to experience strange dreams and waking visions tied to the mirror, she finds herself acting on impulses she can’t explain, while her fiancé Ned grows increasingly alarmed by her erratic behavior and the string of pearl thefts plaguing the city.