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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: September 1954
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Country: United States
The Vraakina are a Brazilian vampire cult. Having infested crop engineer Douglas Gaines, he suffers fits of turning into a man-bat. Getting more and more delusional, Gaines falls from a roof to his death.; The "unmourned ghost" of evil Alexander Black is doomed to walk the earth forever, but he has a cunning plan. During heart surgery upon Dr. Anders, Black slips into his body and takes over. An indian colleague manages to extract the evil spirit again, so that Dr. Anders can return rightfully into his own body.; Anton Schultz was a theatrical director in Vienna. Gone into bankruptcy he now lives as a caretaker of the cemetery. In his spare time, Schultz raises the dead and directs them in his plays. When a famous actor joins his ranks, things get out of hand.; Maxwell Geis is haunted by recurrent nightmares. The people he dreams about, die. On the brink of insanity, he falls in love with a girl. Visiting her parents, he relives his dreams again. Maxwell is brought into an insane asylum, but is stabbed to death by the people he used to dream about.; "A weird tale from the Alaskan wastelands began in 1883 when an old prospector, after years of searching, found a mountain of gold..." Anyone he tries to get his hands on the treasure is haunted by the prospector's ghost and strangled.; "In 1897, Dr. Arnold Squire of Bristol, England, became involved in a series of supernatural events that challenged normal reasoning..." During a house call the doctor meets a woman who can transform herself into a "devil-cat" - and shoots her unknowingly.