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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Ace Magazines
Title: The Beyond
Page Count: 36
Genre: Fantasy, Horror-suspense
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: November 1954
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Country: United States
Pipe collector Ira Krim is fascinated by a skull-shaped pipe in a curio shop. Despite all warnings, he is compelled to own the pipe, even if it means his doom.; With his terrible first marriage behind him, a man starts a life with a new family. He is called to the deathbed of his first wife, who lets the man know that his first-born was born with a long 3rd finger, a sure sign that he is cursed to be a werewolf. Years later, the first-born returns, his curse fulfilled, intent on claiming his inheritance.; A down-and-out candle maker is desperate, and cannot buy animal fat to make more product. After his fiancee leaves him, he becomes desperate, and resorts to digging graves to steal the bodies for making his wares. This, of course, comes with consequences.; An Army officer is trying to fly home to be with his wife for the birth of their first baby. He is stuck at an airfield, fog-bound, when the news reaches him that the flight on which he was booked has crashed en route to the air field, killing all aboard. Later, a mysterious stranger arrives and volunteers to fly the officer to his wife. The officer is later shocked to learn the identity of his benefactor.; "The pipes of Pan, the flute-like instrument used by the legendary half-man, half-beast Pan, to lure mortals to Hades, figured in a most outstanding event which took place in London in 1893..." A young sculptor endeavors to create a statue of Pan, who in mythology, is to have lured mortals to Hades by the hypnotic power of his pipes. Before the sculture is complete, the sculptor receives a strange visitor.; "The citizens of the village of Hof in Bavaria were plagued by mysterious disappearances of villagers from the neighborhood..." An orchard-keeper is caught burying bodies in the Bavarian village of Hof. The trees don't take kindly to the removal of the bodies.