Haunt of Fear #14

In "A Little Stranger!", a lonely vampire woman and a cursed werewolf find unexpected love in the shadows of the hill country, their bond tested by the moon’s monthly pull. When the villagers destroy them, their final night together becomes a haunting vow—rising from the devil’s graveyard to begin a strange, eternal marriage, their love sealed in a mausoleum as their home.

In "Take Your Pick!", Emma’s world shatters when her husband Stuart’s cold indifference leads to her mother’s death—her final plea for help ignored. Now broken by grief and rage, Emma confronts Stuart with a chilling choice: one moment of mercy, or a blade meant to end it all.

In "Ship-Shape!" from Haunt of Fear #14, four survivors of a plane crash cling to a life raft only to be drawn toward a ghostly derelict adrift in the open sea. Covered in a pulsing, unnatural fungus, the ship seems to breathe with a sickly life of its own—until one man’s reckless curiosity with a pocket knife unleashes a horror that dissolves him in seconds. Now trapped between the wreckage and the sky, the two who escape realize too late that the fungus has found a new host: the raft itself.

In "This Little Piggy...", a British officer in colonial India ignores his uncle’s warning and hunts a sacred boar, then serves it at dinner with unsettling ritual. The native servant’s horrified reaction sets off a chain of events that will not let the officer leave the region unscathed.