Crime Suspenstories #14

In "Sweet Dreams!", Martin’s growing resentment toward his wife Pamela turns deadly when her chronic insomnia gives him the perfect chance to end their marriage. He slips sleeping pills into her coffee, then smothers her when the overdose fails to take effect—only to find his plan unraveling when a doctor reveals Pamela was never prescribed any medication at all.

In "The Perfect Place!", Ernest Jenkins dreams of a quiet country home to fuel his writing—but his real plans are far darker. As he prepares to bury his wife beneath the floorboards, a sheriff’s warrant arrives, revealing that another man already confessed to the same crime. The house, once a sanctuary for secrets, now feels like a trap.

In a raw, unflinching tale titled "The Electric Chair," a man named Pete, shattered by betrayal, makes a desperate choice that spirals into a final, tragic flight. After a violent act born of rage, he flees his fate in a courtroom, seeking escape through the dark tunnels beneath the city—only to meet a grim end in the electric shadows of the subway.

In a grim twist of fate, Peter returns home to find his wife with another man—and in a flash of rage, he takes a life. Now condemned to die by the hangman’s noose, he refuses his fate and flees into the dark labyrinth of the London subway, pursued by police. As he scrambles for escape, a final, cruel irony seals his doom in the most unexpected way.

In 1996, "The Guillotine!" delivers a grim, pulse-pounding tale set in France, where a man’s world collapses in an instant—his wife’s betrayal ignites a fatal act of rage. Haunted by his crime and sentenced to die by guillotine, he flees into the dark metro tunnels, desperate to avoid his fate. But in a final, tragic twist, his attempt to escape ends in a horrifying, mechanical execution on the very rails he sought to outrun.

In "Private Performance," a desperate thief breaks into a wealthy woman’s home, only to stumble upon a chilling scene: her husband, in a rage, kills her. Now hunted himself, he flees to the basement, where he takes refuge in a mysterious sword box—only to discover the man’s true identity as a former magician whose deadly act was all too real.