Web of Mystery #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains two main stories. The opening tale features a cursed violin: a man placed a curse on the gallows such that anyone who possesses his violin dies a violent death, and he warns his current victim that their demise is imminent. "Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch" follows scientist Simon Lorch, who developed a potion intended to restore human vigor and power to primordial levels, but the formula exceeded his expectations and transformed him into a giant brutish creature. In a parallel narrative, a commercial airline pilot uses Lorch's experimental plane to escape with a woman named Lila, navigating through dangerous fog while the scientist pursues them. The final story involves a curse tied to an Egyptian tomb: Professor Dramid believes he can exchange his life for that of a mummy through hieroglyphic incantations, setting off a chain of supernatural events involving a cursed coffin and the threat of death to whoever opens it.
A cursed violin passes through three desperate hands, each doomed to commit murder when its strings are played—its deadly melody echoing through the shadows of 1951’s darkest corners. As the instrument’s sinister legacy unfolds, the question isn’t who will play it next, but who can stop it before the final note is struck.
In the shadowed waters of the Caribbean, a Spanish nobleman exiled by his own crown turned pirate, vowing revenge and guarding a fortune too cursed to be claimed. His legend lives on in whispers—where treasure lies, so too does a deadly curse, waiting for the greedy or foolish to cross his path.
In "Strange Potion of Dr. Lorch," a timid scientist's life takes a monstrous turn when a mysterious elixir awakens a primal force within him—transforming him into a savage, strength-fueled hunter. As he stalks through the night, driven by an ancient hunger, he must face the terrifying truth of his new nature and the one being who may hold the key to his undoing.
In 1943, Major Carlton Field returns to London after a failed intelligence mission, only to be drawn into a chilling encounter with Dmitri Falakian—a man who claims to possess a vial of eternal youth. When the vial shatters, Falakian’s body collapses into a skeleton, revealing a secret that stretches back nearly four centuries.
In the thick fog of a San Francisco winter, a desperate man races against time to reach his pregnant wife, stranded as all flights are grounded. When a mysterious private plane appears from the mist, he climbs aboard—only to discover the pilot is the ghost of a man who died in a crash that same day.
In a quiet American museum, an ancient mummy stirs to life after five thousand years, its resurrection tied to a forgotten betrayal of the Egyptian death-god Osiris. As police fail to contain the reawakened Dramid, a mysterious stranger arrives—unmasking himself as Osiris himself, come to reclaim the soul that once defied the afterlife.
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Reprinted in The Beyond #27 (1954), Baffling Mysteries #22 (1954), The Beyond #28 (1954), The Beyond #29 (1954), Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Mummies #[nn] (2017), The Strange Tale of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde #[nn] (2024)
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