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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Ace Magazines
Title: The Beyond
Page Count: 36
Genre: Horror-suspense
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: May 1951
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Country: United States
Playboy Weston is convicted and executed for a murder he didn't commit. The district attorney Dexter knew of his innocence, but used the case to become governor. Months later Dexter is poetically killed by a falling statue of justice and has to appear before a jury of ghosts. Dexter is sentenced to clear Weston's name - and does so.; Knife-throwing artist Zander is executed and swears revenge upon his judges. At the same time, a concert pianist loses his hands in a train crash and gets Zander's hands transplanted. The hands command him to kill, kill, kill. So it happens.; A gangster has set up an empire in the Peruvian andes, controlling Inca zombies. When Pat Knowlton comes to visit with her fiancé Gordon, they can thwart the gangster's evil plans.; Lost in the Florida swamps, a young couple drives up to an old colonial mansion where a masquerade seems to take place. It is in reality a reenacment of an old family tragedy, staged by ghosts. The couple escapes from the burning house and stands there, pondering.; "Over a century has passed since old Andrew McCullough and his dog, Satan, used to stride down the hillside..." When watchdog Satan dies, it is buried with precious gifts. Two graverobbers meet a grisly end, trying to retrieve the treasures.; "Do the dead hold powers over the living? Some claim they do!" Mr. Bentley wants to be buried near the cliff at his home. When he is given a burial at sea, his corpse mysteriously floats 2.000 miles back home.