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Quote1 With Jeb gone, my secret is safe forever! Now they'll never sell MY house --- NEVER! Yes, ha, ha! I've made sure! No one will live here! Ha, ha - i will always be MINE! MINE! Quote2
John Keystone

Appearing in "House for Sale"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Mystic #8

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Richard Burns (First appearance)
  • Jeb Treble (First appearance; dies)

Other Characters:

  • Charlie (First appearance)
  • Miss Dee
  • Ben White (Mentioned)
  • Tom Keystone (Mentioned) (Deceased)
  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Unnamed Inspector

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "House for Sale"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Mystic #8
A real estate agent offers to spend the night at a house with a reputation for murder in order to show that it is safe for potential buyers. The caretaker offers to switch beds with the agent just in case the ghost does show up. Since the caretaker has lived there thirty years, he is not afraid to spend the night in the room with the bad reputation, but some fear would have saved his life, as the 'ghost' does indeed show up and murder him. When the real estate agent finds the body in the morning, he phones the police and laments to his boss that now the house will never sell. However, the last panel reveals that he is secretly glad the house will not sell as the reader learns the real estate agent is the murdering 'ghost' and he considers the house 'his'.

Appearing in "The Silent Street"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
World of Fantasy #10

Featured Characters:

  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Officer Greene

Supporting Characters:

  • Martian Police
    • Unnamed Police Officer

Antagonists:

  • Nargak (First appearance; dies)

Other Characters:

  • Mr. Welch
  • Johnny
  • Laura
  • Mrs. Macassy

Races and Species:

Locations:

Vehicles:

  • Martian Teleportation Booth

Synopsis for "The Silent Street"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
World of Fantasy #10
A police officer makes his night rounds thinking that nothing interesting ever happens in the neighborhood while two aliens are conducting a life or death struggle among the rooftops.

Appearing in "The Burning Flame"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Mystic #8

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Bum (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Two unnamed police officers

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Man (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)

Races and Species:

Locations:

Items:

  • Corpse Candles

Synopsis for "The Burning Flame"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Mystic #8
A bum steals silver candles from a body lying in state in a funeral home but the alarm puts the cops on his trail. He attempts to extinguish the flame, but the candles won't go out. He flees through the cemetery, but the candles light up the figure for the police who shoot him. He falls dead into the grave of the corpse he stole the candles from.

Appearing in "I Went Through the Veil!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
World of Fantasy #10

Featured Characters:

  • Ralph

Supporting Characters:

  • Lise
  • Unnamed Old Man

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Banker
  • Unnamed Car Salesman
  • Ralph's Wife

Races and Species:

Locations:

Synopsis for "I Went Through the Veil!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
World of Fantasy #10
A woman of the far future draws a man out of the past through the veil of time travel to be her mate. One of her fellow futurians sends him back and admonishes her that she knows people from the past must remain in the past. He explains that they live so far in the future that all possible combinations of appearance have been exhausted and that is why she looks just like the past man's wife and she will fall in love with a futurian who looks like that man in the past did.

Appearing in "The Books That Were Alive"

Reprint of the 7th story from
World of Fantasy #10

Featured Characters:

  • Bert Wells (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Doris Wells (First appearance)
  • Stellar Space Traveling Library Pilot

Antagonists:

  • Sea Manta (First appearance)
  • Unidentified Creature

Other Characters:

  • Unidentified Book Club (Mentioned)

Races and Species:

  • Humans
  • Sea Mantas (First appearance)
  • Unidentified alien species

Locations:

Items:

  • Adventures in Deep-Sea Fishing (Book)
  • Jungle Exploration (Book)
  • Mountains in the Sky (Book)

Vehicles:

  • Stellar Space Traveling Library (First appearance)

Synopsis for "The Books That Were Alive"

Reprint of the 7th story from
World of Fantasy #10
A space Book Mobile accidentally drops some books where a hiker finds them and has realistic adventures by using them.

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