We begin with "Rambeau's Revenge" by Carl Wessler and George Tuska. A disfigured teenager uses voodoo to take revenge on classmates who taunted him by disfiguring their looks using acid and voodoo dolls. When they approach his cabin to take revenge, he panics and spills acid on the figurine that he had made of himself, removing his facial features altogether. Note: Sylvester Stallone is not in this story, despite the name.
Next is "The Gravediggers" by Carl Wessler, Ross Andru and Mike Esposito. Jim Marlowe is always playing mean practical jokes on his friends. When they finally turn the tables on him, playing a huge joke wherein he thinks they are going to kill him, he goes insane. Not really much of a story here, but I never expected much from The Unexpected.
That is followed by "Once Upon a Killer," also by Carl Wessler and George Tuska. Fugitive killer Rud Harlow stumbles out of the Arizona desert looking for water. He finds a ranch and when the owner refuses to show him where the water is he kills him. Out back he finds a water hole and drinks deeply before realizing the hole is poisoned and that he had killed the old rancher before he could warn him.
We end with "Haunted House Do Not Disturb" by George Kashdan and Jerry Grandenetti. With the best artwork in this issue, we see Martin and Wilma visiting the old English Frumley Castle and are invited, for an extra fee to spend the night in the castle and meet the ghost that haunts it. Martin is all for it and a reluctant Wilma accompanies him. The lord of the castle warns them not to disturb the ghost if they see it, but when a ghost appears at midnight, Martine chases after it, only to be trapped in the castle tower by the ghost.
He begs the ghost not to hurt him and the ghost replies that he is a ghost and incapable of hurting him. The ghost is the Earl of Meacham, the original and true owner of the castle. The first Lord Frumley was his cousin and stayed with him in the castle, but he was also Meacham's murderer, who forged a deed to the property and stole the castle from his family. The real deed has been hidden for centuries and the ghost has waited patiently for someone to help retrieve it. Wilma has awakened Lord Frumley to help look for Martin, but Frumley has other ideas.
He has waited for someone to do the ghost's bidding so he can finally destroy the real deed. Martin meets up with Wilma and together they recover the real deed from the castle graveyard. Frumley arrives with gun in hand to take it from them when a lantern from the castle crashes to the ground, startling them all and allowing Martin to disarm Frumley. The deed recovered and safe, the ghost leaves the castle, waving to the pair as it goes.
Edited by Murray Boltinoff.
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