Web of Mystery #26

In "Spell of the She-Bat," a Brazilian vampire cult known as the Vraakina twists the mind and body of crop engineer Douglas Gaines, plunging him into terrifying transformations and spiraling delusions. As his grip on reality slips, Gaines battles an unseen force that drives him toward a fateful end.

Fred Arnold, a young prospector, discovers an eerie vision in the Alaskan wilderness—a spectral guide revealing the legendary lost mountain of gold and its curse. When Arnold's greed-driven companion ignores warnings about the treasure's supernatural protection, the mountain's ancient vengeance awakens, trapping him in a fate as frozen as the killers who came before.

In "The Ghost Who Stole a Body," the restless spirit of the malevolent Alexander Black, cursed to wander the living world, seizes control of a surgeon during a delicate operation. With the help of a shrewd Indian colleague, the doctor fights to reclaim his own body from the spectral intruder in a tense battle of wills.

In 1897 Bristol, Dr. Arnold Squire answers a desperate summons to a house where he discovers a woman imprisoned by her husband—a man whose apparent supernatural powers and mysterious presence seem to confirm her terror. But as the night unfolds, Squire finds himself caught between a husband's threats, a prisoner's pleas, and forces far stranger than he bargained for. Meanwhile, in Vienna's Mühláus Cemetery, the caretaker Anton Schultz has discovered an ancient sorcerer's secret: the power to raise the dead and command them as actors for his theatrical visions, leading him down a dark path that will test the very limits of mortal obsession and madness.

In the quiet shadow of Vienna’s oldest cemetery, former theatrical director Anton Schultz now tends graves by day and conjures the dead for his macabre stage by night. When a celebrated actor joins his spectral troupe, the line between performance and possession begins to blur—leaving Schultz to wonder if he’s still the director, or merely another pawn in a far darker play.

In "Behind the Locked Door," a man tormented by nightmares that foretell real deaths finds fleeting hope in love—only to have his dreams spiral into a chilling reality. When his visions follow him into the home of the girl he loves, the line between nightmare and fate begins to blur.