Ghosts #29 is an issue of the series Ghosts (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1974.
Synopsis for "The Haunted Lady of Death"
A military man named Sir Victor Goddard encounters a strange guest at a party. The stranger predicts that Goddard will die in a horrible airplane accident that very night. The stranger explains that his vision also included a brass buttoned coat and a female. Goddard dismisses the encounter but is visibly shaken. He then receives a cable gram that orders him to fly out to Tokyo that very night. A reporter asks to accompany Goddard on the flight to get an interview. Goddard agrees to have him ride along since the man is not connected to the military and would not be wearing a button up brass buttoned coat. They board the plane and Goddard confirms that they will have a male pilot and no female onboard. The plane eventually encounters bad weather and the pilot is forced to make an emergency landing. As the plane is descending the reporter finds that he had received the wrong coat from the butler at the party and the coat has brass button up buttons. The plane crashes on a hillside and Goddard lays dying wondering why there was no female onboard as the stranger had predicted. He then spots the name of the side of the plane. The plane is named “The Lady Anne”.
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Synopsis for "Howling of the Ghost Hounds"
A man named Hans Helmut becomes increasingly annoyed with his neighbor who is constantly taking in stray dogs. Helmut becomes disgruntled when the hounds start to howl but then he notices that the noises stop and Helmut concludes that his neighbor has probably taken the dogs to a shelter in the city. Helmut then gets the idea that this is a good opportunity to search his neighbors house for hidden money. As he is digging up the floorboards, the neighbor suddenly appears and catches Helmut in his house. Helmut hits that neighbor in the head with a crowbar and kills him. Ghostly dogs then appear and start Howling. Helmut pretends to have found the body as other neighbors arrive to see what has happened. A group of bloodhounds is put together to search for the killer. They search out the city and corner Helmut right away. Helmut is haunted by the sounds of howling hounds in his head and immediately confesses to the crime. He is beheaded on the gallows as ghostly hounds continue to howl in the distance.
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Synopsis for "The Claws of the Phantom"
A greedy German industrialist by the name of Horst Kessler conducts business in his usual ruthless manner. He has little regard for history as he destroys historical landmarks from the past to accomplish his selfish goals. At one point he is about to demolish a medieval castle that Kurt Von Falken, a famous German hero of the middle ages. Kessler scoffs at the concerns of his assistant and proceeds to enter the castle. He eventually finds the armored corpse of Von Falken lying in the castle. Kessler decides to take the corpses head as a trophy over the protests of his assistant who is outraged with Kesslers behavior. Kessler takes the skull home with him and begins to experience ghostly images as he sleeps. He stubbornly undeterred by the images and insists that he has a right to keep whatever trophy he wishes to posses. At one point Kessler almost has a near brush with death as he almost drives his car off a cliff. He decides to go on a hunting trip to relax his nerves but he encounters more ghostly images as his airplane takes to the air. Kessler retrieves his shotgun and starts to shoot at the ghostly bird images from inside his plane. He gunshots attract a group of birds that get caught in the plane engines and bring it down. Kessler is killed in the accident on October 14, 1957.
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Synopsis for "When Stars Met Specters"
In this small short story, legendary film actor James Cagney is speeding through a curvy road when he is suddenly startled by a ghostly image telling him to slow down. He takes his foot off the pedal and finds that he had slowed just in time to avoid a head on collision with a truck. Cagney concluded that the ghostly image was that of his deceased father who was warning him to slow down to avoid the accident. A second short story tells the tale of actress Olivia De Havilland who encounters a strange man that offers to accompany her on her walk home. The couple arrives at the home and the stranger departs. The next morning De Havilland is reading the paper and is shaken to see that the man that had accompanied her had died the previous morning.
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