Midnight Mystery #4

When Vic Latimer, Grace Farwell, and Dave Henderson take a fateful trip to Magic Mountain, their tangled romance takes an unexpected turn—years later, fate offers a chance to rewrite what was lost. In this timeless fantasy tale, old feelings resurface as the past and present collide.

In "The Spectral Stampede," two uranium prospectors in a remote canyon survive a terrifying encounter with a stampeding herd of buffalo—only to find themselves unharmed. When an old-timer from a nearby town explains the phenomenon, he claims the animals were the ghosts of a herd slaughtered a century prior, leaving the men to wonder what truly lies beneath the dust of the old West.

When a skilled hunter and tireless tall-tale teller named Pierre Gordin witnesses a pair of mysterious aircraft battling in the Canadian wilderness, he discovers the crash site harbors something far more extraordinary than any of his fabricated stories—a massive, indestructible creature from outer space. As Pierre races to help and comes face-to-face with the monstrous Rankar, he's contacted by its alien hunters from Syrtis IV, who need his hunting expertise to capture their escaped beast before it destroys everything in its path. Written by Zev Zimmer and illustrated by Ogden Whitney, this six-page adventure blends frontier lore with science fiction as Pierre hatches a daring plan to turn the creature's own power against it.

Owen David recounts a harrowing tale to a Scotland Yard inspector searching for the vanished Gordon Barry—a man obsessed with finding the ultimate adventure. When Gordon encounters the ghostly figure of Celia Crane, a woman who died twenty-five years ago while seeking the road to London, his romantic nature compels him to help her despite Owen's desperate warnings about the supernatural peril she represents. Written by Kurato Osaki with art by Pete Costanza, "A Journey into Oblivion!" weaves a atmospheric story of obsession and the price of chasing impossible quests across the English moors.