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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Ace Magazines
Title: Baffling Mysteries
Page Count: 36
Genre: Fantasy, Horror-suspense
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: March 1953
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Country: United States
Actress Nolita is killed in an argument with her husband. She flees the crypt, hoping to escape death. As her body withers away in the world of the living, she returns to death and finds peace with her late husband.; A surgeon believes in vampires. To prove his theory he drags his uncle from the crypt who was a vampire! The bloodthirsty vampire rampages through the hospital and infects his nephew. After more killings, the surgeon overcomes his vampirism by means of a blood transfusion and both uncle and nephew fall struggling with each other out of a window to their death.; The sculptor Clatrow forms voodoo dolls out of graveyard clay. Ridding himself with this mystic power of his mentor, Clatrow plans to marry the daughter of the house. Visions of the murdered man haunt Clatrow, he breaks his own voodoo image by accident and dies.; In the jungle of Bengali, two adventurers encounter the orchid goddess and her man-eating orchids. They escape to the new world, bringing along a small plant. As it grows, it turns their florist business into a little shop of horrors.; "There is a man today, in Spain, who has in his possession two macabre paintings..." People die gazing upon paintings of horror.; "On the desolate coast of Nova Scotia, there stands a lighthouse..." All lighthouse keepers vanish. Two tourists staying the night find out that all of them cruise the sea at night - in a rowboat.