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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Ace Magazines
Title: Baffling Mysteries
Page Count: 36
Genre: Horror-suspense
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: September 1954
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Country: United States
The evil-minded Corella is a sculptress who can capture her model's souls in her statues. Her husband George finds out about it and has to decide between his wife and his life.; A violin is charged with a gypsy curse: the person who plays it, will commit a murder. The evil instrument goes through three murderous hands, before it can be destroyed.; In a scheme to get his insurance money, struggling painter Ben Ober agrees to a fake burial of his comatose body. Everything goes not exactly as planned, and in the end there's the devil to pay.; In Hungary, two treasure hunters steal a vampire's amulet out of its grave, thus releasing the beast. Following the men through half of Europe, the vampire finally retrieves his amulet and finds eternal rest in his grave again.; "In the legends of the gypsies the weird affair of Charles Gower remains an unsolved, startling mystery..." Gower kills a fortune teller, because the old woman "knows too much". He is haunted by her ghost and reveals himself to the police.; "Victor Mayner was a 'ladies' man', a fortune hunter who preyed on lonely wealthy women..." His career comes to a sudden stop when he woos a vampire lady.