Out of the Night #4 (1952)

When Mrs. Parker hires a disturbingly eerie glazier to fix her picture window, she doesn’t realize the glass now serves as a portal to a sinister, otherworldly realm of the dead—where her family begins seeing ghostly figures emerging from the drapes and the familiar world outside has vanished. As her husband Jim investigates the strange phenomenon, he discovers that the window has inverted the boundaries between life and death, turning the living into phantoms in the dead’s world—and the dead into tangible threats in his own.

In a tense, suspenseful tale from *Out of the Night #4*, scientist Gordon and his lover Jane are pursued by a mysterious ghost after a deadly car crash near Arlington Cemetery. The ghost, seemingly tied to the spirits of Lincoln and Washington, leads Gordon on a haunting journey through iconic Washington landmarks, forcing him to confront his moral dilemma about a dangerous discovery. As he pieces together the truth, Gordon must decide whether to trust the supernatural guide who may be protecting him from foreign spies.

In "The Phantom Fliers," pilot Bill finds himself in a desperate flight from Assam to Karachi when engine trouble forces him to consider bailing out over treacherous mountains—until a mysterious squadron of vintage warplanes signals him to land at an uncharted airfield. Taken for a new recruit, Bill soon realizes the other fliers are not alive, but ghosts trapped in a cycle of deadly missions. Only he and a woman named Nora seem to exist in the real world, and their connection may be the only key to breaking the pattern.

In the eerie silence of Cypress Hall, Brian and Marge confront the corpse of Brian’s long-hated uncle, only to be haunted by a supernatural curse that binds Brian to an eternal cycle of evil. As the clock strikes the thirteenth hour, the uncle’s spirit emerges, declaring that Brian has been chosen to carry a malevolent fate—dooming him to perpetuate darkness unless he resists its pull.