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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Ace Magazines
Title: Web of Mystery
Page Count: 36
Genre: Horror / Suspense
Era: Golden Age
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: June 1952
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Country: United States
American historian Jay Stafford goes to Vienna to unearth the history of the Wozzeck family. Accidentally he unearths Countess Maria as well, a female vampire going on a rampage. Stafford can correct his mistake and disposes again of the vampire. The bells are ringing in affirmation.; Vincent, a gambler, poisons his rich uncle to get his money. The uncle's soul is reincarnated in his black cat, Shadow. The cat chases Vincent into water, into a car accident and finally into a trap door spiked with blades.; Felicia is a "golddigger" roaming the casinos of Monte Carlo and looking for rich men. At a carnival a "mirror of destiny" shows her true face - ugly and distorted by greed. Destroying the mirror seals her fate: Felicia turns into an old crone.; A railroad exploration team in Iraq runs into a tribe of jackal-people. Their treacherous high priestess takes human form and lures the men into her temple. Engineer Carson keeps a clear head and blows the lot to kingdom come.; "We have all heard of pet animals that have pined away and died shortly after their human masters have died. But here is the strange story of an inanimate object..." An old seafaring captain is angry because his son didn't bury his favorite clock with him. The clock appoints the son's hour of death. He doesn't believe it, but so it comes to be.; "In 1897, a British archeologist by the name of Luther Powell was making a scientific search in the jungles of Burma..." Finding the idol statue of Ranga, Powell brings her to London. The idol comes alive, killing Powell and returning to Burma.