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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: April 1951
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Country: United States
A swimmer meets a mermaid-like woman in an underwater cave. She tells him to bring a message to a man on the surface. Investigating the incident, the two men find the remains of lovely red-haired Lola, who drowned ten years ago.; In a Scotch castle, a vampire comes to life. First posing as an attorney, he can be identified quickly and is destroyed in his coffin.; Publisher Reynolds returns to his office after a week of vacation to find out that he is dead. He has been killed in his sleep in a train accident, now he wanders around getting used to being dead. He learns that his best friend Brad had staged the "accident" to get his hands on the Reynolds heritage. Though being a ghost, he can expose the evil-doer.; A hunting party in the French Canadian wilds is attacked by a werewolf. One of the men is bitten and has to race time not to change into another werewolf. The man can kill the original werewolf - thus freeing their friend from the werewolf's curse.; "It was a dreary day in London, on October 18th, 1902, when elderly Graham Hilliard passed away..." At the reading of the will, the portrait of the deceased starts to frown when the name of his cook is mentioned. Turns out he was poisoned by this person.; "On a cold winter's day in 1879 in the North Atlantic, the freighter Liverpool Lucy was cutting through the icy waters..." A ghost appears in the captain's cabin and commands him to steer another course. In doing so, a boat full of shipwrecked men is found and saved.