Web of Mystery #17

When Al Desmond visits a traveling circus with his fiancée Louise, a mysterious palmist at the sideshow intrigues him—she knows his name without being told, and insists he return at midnight. What unfolds in that fateful tent encounter will transform his life in ways he never imagined, as the palmist reveals a supernatural secret that binds them together. This 1953 tale from Web of Mystery explores the terrifying consequences of curiosity and the price of a bargain made in the dark.

In a remote Scottish moor town, an innkeeper’s betrayal of his highwayman friend leads to a haunting that refuses to stay buried — a ghostly vengeance that turns the inn’s once-thriving trade into a cursed shadow of itself.

When Vern and Carla's country drive goes dangerously wrong—a mysterious dagger punctures their tire on a lonely road—they're drawn into a maze of supernatural terror centered around an abandoned amusement park and the sinister secrets of a local curio shop. As Carla falls under an otherworldly spell and Vern struggles to understand the horror unfolding around him, the truth behind a centuries-old witch-killing blade and the restless undead becomes impossible to ignore. "From the Graves of the Unholy" weaves a twisted tale of curses, possession, and the thin line between the living world and something far darker.

In the shadow of the Matterhorn, where the air bites and the peaks pierce the sky, a decades-old tragedy resurfaces. Twenty-three years after a fatal climb, a lone survivor faces the mountain’s frozen silence—and the ghost of a friend he once left behind.

In "Blood Potion of the Black Cult," Englishman Charles Delavan travels to India and uncovers a horrifying secret: his friend is a cultist devoted to the dark goddess Kali. As he tries to escape the truth, he’s ensnared in a deadly ritual and forced to drink a cursed potion that binds him to the cult’s twisted legacy.

A newlywed couple inherits Castle Perdito through a high-stakes card game, only to discover the ancient Tuscan stronghold is claimed by Madrone, a mysterious figure who commands a supernatural force of stone gargoyles and guards its secrets with lethal traps. As Brian and Thea fight for survival through collapsing walls and pursuing horrors, they begin to uncover the dark truth behind centuries of vanished Perdito lords. This 1953 horror-suspense tale combines Gothic atmosphere with genuine danger at every turn.