Eerie #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains two stories: "Murder at the Mardi Gras," featuring a Mardi Gras carnival setting where Dan Bidwell, a Hollywood actor, reunites with a childhood acquaintance named Marion, but becomes entangled in a scheme involving family fortune and kidnapping orchestrated by an elderly man who forces him and Marion into a dungeon with a time-limit threat; and a science fiction tale involving a spacecraft crew at high altitude attempting to reach space, where the characters struggle with malfunctioning rocket controls and must manage fuel consumption while dealing with atmospheric pressure and heat as they accelerate to extreme speeds toward their destination.
Young scholar Fred Langham becomes obsessed with uncovering the secrets of an infamous mirror once belonging to Count Cagliostro, a figure said to have wielded dark magic centuries ago—and when he finally locates the artifact in a London junk shop, he glimpses something impossible within its glass. As Fred pursues the truth behind the mirror's sinister legend, his fiancée Jean grows increasingly worried about his descent into obsession, while unsettling forces seem to close in around him in his own home.
When Hollywood star Dan Bidwell returns to New Orleans and reconnects with his childhood sweetheart Connie Williams, their reunion takes a dark turn when a desperate gambler named Flash Nelson is murdered in Dan's hotel room—leaving him the prime suspect. As the Mardi Gras celebration erupts outside, Dan, Connie, and her cousin Bill must navigate a desperate scheme to prove his innocence before the police close in. A tense race against time unfolds as they move through the crowded streets of the French Quarter with a deadly secret.
Marion Bennett, a young American tourist, slips away from a castle tour through ancient Kardin Castle and mysteriously finds herself transported 500 years into the past—where she's thrust into a desperate situation orchestrated by the ruthless Lord Kardin, who has kidnapped her to force a marriage to his reluctant son, young Roger Kardin, for her family's fortune. As Marion struggles to comprehend her impossible circumstances, she discovers an unexpected bond with Roger, who refuses to let his father's schemes exploit her heart. Torn between two worlds and a love that defies time itself, Marion faces an impossible choice while chaos erupts around her.
When an experimental rocket carrying Captain Miller and Major Pulaski reaches 300,000 feet, a mechanical failure sends them hurtling deeper into space at incredible speed—far beyond what anyone on the ground anticipated. Drifting helplessly beyond Earth's atmosphere, the two astronauts witness an extraterrestrial invasion bearing down on their home planet, and their desperate attempts to warn civilization face an obstacle far stranger than the enemy itself. As they race to return to Earth, they discover a chilling truth about the nature of time and speed that may render their warning meaningless.
In 1860, the whaling ship *Hope* discovers a mysterious schooner locked in Antarctic ice, and Captain Brighton leads a boarding party to investigate. What they find in the frozen vessel's quarters—a dead crew and a logbook revealing 37 years adrift with a final, haunting entry—sets the stage for an eerie encounter with the supernatural. As they prepare to leave the derelict in peace, an unseen force draws the ghost ship back toward the polar mists, and out of mortal reach.
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