Blue Bolt Weird Tales #119

When Jeff Barton wins an ornamental Oriental chest at auction, he dismisses warnings about its sinister history—until he opens it and releases the very demons that have haunted it for millennia. By Jay Disbrow, this 1953 tale pits Jeff and Joan against grotesque creatures emerging from the chest, with help arriving from an unexpected spectral source. What began as a wealthy collector's prize becomes a desperate fight for survival against forces bound to the mysterious box.

Wealthy retired ship's captain Winfield Corrigan dismisses warnings about the haunted past of his newly purchased Southern Georgia mansion—until a ghostly encounter in the basement forces him to confront something far more sinister than legend. When he awakens from what he desperately hopes was only a nightmare, the physical marks tell a different story.

In postwar Germany, Lieutenant Jock MacReady's romantic evening with torch singer Gretchen Bauer at a cabaret spirals into something far stranger when he's drawn into a military intelligence operation involving a mysterious scientist and technology that defies explanation. MacReady's assignment to stay close to Gretchen puts him in contact with messengers from an impossible source—and when he intercepts a note meant for her, he finds himself pursuing a trail that leads to a remote-controlled rocket ship hidden in a German forest. What begins as a spy mission transforms into something beyond earthly reckoning when MacReady boards the ship and finds himself hurtling through space toward an unknown destination.

When a mysterious explosion destroys a thriving city on the edge of the Congo decades ago, Jo-Jo discovers a forsaken metropolis hidden in the jungle—and learns that a mad scientist and his daughter have been living in its ruins, determined to keep their dark secret safe from the outside world. As Jo-Jo and Tanee venture deeper into this strange, dangerous place, they uncover the horrifying truth behind the city's destruction and must survive encounters with savage beasts, deadly machinery, and the city's desperate inhabitants. It's a tale of jungle adventure that blends the wonder and terror of a civilization lost to time and madness.