Haunt of Fear #3

In "Sucker Bait!", Emile returns home to reunite with his brother Stan and their father, only to find the family caught in a deadly game. When a vampire strikes, Emile takes a desperate gamble—injecting himself with a radioactive isotope, planning to lure the creature to its doom using a Geiger counter. But the twist lies in who’s really behind the attack, and the note meant to save them may be the last thing Emile ever reads.

In "Lover, Come Hack to Me!" from Haunt of Fear #3, newlyweds Peggy and Charles find themselves stranded in a storm-ravaged countryside, seeking shelter in a forgotten house. What begins as a desperate refuge quickly unravels when Charles wakes to a nightmarish twist—his surroundings altered, the past bleeding into the present, and a chilling memory of a murder he never lived. As the line between dream and reality frays, Peggy’s quiet presence grows unnervingly familiar, and the axe in her hand feels all too real.

In "Double-Header!" from Haunt of Fear #3 (1992), the lonely King remains unmoved by the court’s endless flirtations—until he falls for Sylvia, a humble scrubbing woman who agrees to marry him. When Sylvia confesses her lingering feelings for her former lover, Cedric, the King’s world unravels, setting off a chain of consequences that test his heart and his rule.

In "Foul Play!" from Haunt of Fear #3, the brutal rivalry between two baseball teams takes a deadly turn when a star player collapses mid-game—revealed to be poisoned. With the toxin traced to the spikes on an opponent’s shoes, the victim’s teammates plot a chilling revenge. That night, they gather for an eerie, makeshift game, using a head as a ball and internal organs to mark the bases—turning the diamond into a twisted field of retribution.

In "Counter-Clockwise," Ron and his father stumble upon a crashed alien spacecraft, only to witness a terrifying creature emerge—before Ron’s father kills it. Years later, Ron is chosen to pilot the recovered ship back to the alien world, unaware that its reverse rotation is unraveling time itself, warping his body and mind. As he struggles to survive the planet’s strange physics, he races toward a final return—only to face a fate that echoes his own past.

In "Zero Hour," a group of kids play a game called "Invasion" with an eerie precision, gathering household objects to construct a portal in a field. As their parents laugh it off, the air grows thick with unease—something about the way the children move, the way they speak, feels just a little too knowing. When one girl returns home to tell her mother they have "visitors," the camera lingers on the shadowed figures trailing behind her, their forms too wrong to be real.

In the cold silence of space, a man haunted by his own choices must face the consequences of a murder committed in the name of love. When Larry returns to the deserted orbital station after killing his friend David, he’s trapped by a message from Earth—forced to stay, alone, with only the weight of his crime and the fear of a mysterious virus that may have followed him home.

In "Judgment Day!", Earthman Tarlton arrives on the mechanical planet Cybrinia to decide if its sentient robots are ready to join humanity’s civilization. As he tours the world of gears and circuits, he notices troubling inequalities among the machines—some laboring in silence while others move freely, echoing the hierarchies he once knew on Earth. When he delivers his verdict, the weight of his own past becomes clear in a quiet, powerful reveal.