Haunt of Fear #21

In "An Off-Color Heir," Laura’s quiet life at her husband’s Louisiana plantation unravels when she stumbles upon a hidden room filled with the bodies of seven women and her husband—now with a striking blue beard and a razor in hand. The story unfolds through a haunting blend of domestic unease and gothic dread, as long-buried secrets from the house’s past begin to surface.

In "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone!", a desperate doctor bets everything on a grotesque experiment: grafting a cat’s nine lives gland into a street-walking derelict to fuel a stuntman’s fame. When the derelict double-crosses him for a bigger cut, the doctor’s cold smile reveals a chilling truth—those extra lives were never really nine to begin with.

In "Corker!", a woman grappling with dark thoughts and her skeptical psychologist visit a mysterious swami whose chilling diagnosis unravels a horrifying truth: she’s been haunted by a decapitation Lamia since witnessing a grotesque execution. As she flees in terror into the subway, the line between possession and escape blurs—leaving the psychologist’s sudden laughter echoing in the dark.

In nineteenth century Paris, a grieving man must choose between burying his wife or surrendering her body to medical students under a new health ordinance. After dropping her off at the medical college one evening, he uses the payment he receives to feed his children and finally give her a proper burial. But the students soon realize the shocking truth: the body they’ve been dissecting is not just any corpse—it belongs to the very Commissioner who enacted the law.