Mister Mystery #11

In the eerie world of *Mister Mystery #11*, the grotesque dress designer Van Shnapier constructs a perfect robotic companion named Mabel to showcase his creations—beautiful, obedient, and flawless. But when his rage drives him to strike her, the machine he built turns against him, setting off a chilling chain of events.

In "The Marriage of Life and Death!" from Mister Mystery #11 (1953), young lovers Nick and Dora stand at the altar, their vows shadowed by a dark secret—Nick believes marrying Dora might break a curse born from a crime he committed in a past life. But as the ceremony unfolds, something twists beneath the surface, turning the sacred moment into something far more unsettling.

A frustrated inventor who dreams of escaping his constant-complaining wife builds the world's first time machine and jumps back twenty thousand years to the Stone Age—only to discover that no matter the era, some problems are universal. This tongue-in-cheek satire takes a sharp, darkly comic look at what happens when a man trades one nagging partner for another, proving that history may repeat itself, but so do the arguments. A fun science-fiction romp that punches at both domestic life and the notion that "the good old days" were ever actually better.

In "The Little Monster," young Gloria finds solace in the animals she secretly keeps despite her aunt Harriet’s harsh rules. When Harriet discovers Gloria’s latest companion, the tension escalates into something far more dangerous than a simple scolding.