Web of Mystery #20

In a town gripped by whispers of vampires, a new boy’s chilling confession sets Miss Albright on a tense investigation. When she confronts the boy’s father, she finds a creature of the night—but one who isn’t the monster she’s been fearing.

In a central European museum, a chilling statue of two struggling men draws uneasy attention—its faces eerily mirroring the final moments of a murdered sculptor and his brother. The work, once a private tragedy, now stands as a silent witness to a crime that seems to have been captured in stone.

In "What Was It?", a brilliant scientist's experiment to reach alien minds backfires when an otherworldly intelligence seizes control of his wife’s body after a tragic domestic moment. With the alien Flora urging him to open the way for a full invasion, Latham faces an impossible choice: surrender to the alien presence or destroy his life's work to stop the coming horde.

In the shadowed Black Mountains of Hungary, the legend of the vampire lady of Belden Castle haunts travelers and locals alike. After a series of sleep-time attacks on tourists, one survivor escapes—just in time to capture a photograph of the horror. When searchers arrive, armed with the image, they find only dust and silence, and no trace of the creature that once walked among them.

In "The Phantom Puppet," a desperate puppetmaster named Peter Lucas unleashes a terrifying creation when he fashions a living doll modeled after Jack The Ripper. As the wooden figure begins its own bloody rampage, Lucas finds himself trapped between his own guilt and the chilling reality that his art has become a killer. With his landlady Mrs. Brudge and her husband Edgar caught in the escalating horror, the line between master and monster blurs in a house consumed by fire and madness.

In a tale of cursed hands and haunted legacy, a magician’s desperate bid for power leads to a gruesome transplant—his new limbs once belonged to a murderer executed two centuries prior. As he begins strangling victims, the vengeful spirit of the long-dead killer stirs, determined to reclaim what’s rightfully his.