Journey into Fear #14

Judge Tobias Penton, a cruel magistrate infamous for handing down harsh verdicts without mercy, presides over the execution of an innocent man named John Stone—who curses the judge from the gallows, swearing revenge from beyond the grave. When the vengeful ghost of John Stone comes calling one night, the judge finds himself dragged before a spectral tribunal of all the men he's condemned to hang, forced to stand trial in a tomb-turned-courtroom where the tables are finally turned. What retribution awaits the hanging judge in the hands of the undead jury?

When a wealthy but physically unattractive scientist named Lester Parke is brutally rejected by the woman he loves and called an animal for his persistence, his wounded pride festers into something far darker—a mad scheme to create a twisted creature that will become his instrument of revenge. Drawing on his expertise in gland science, Parke begins a horrifying experiment that will transform the body of a dead gorilla into something unprecedented. As his plan nears completion, the stage is set for a reckoning that promises to be anything but merciful.

In fog-shrouded Bristol, the morgue keeper Jasper Biggs preys on desperate sailors, offering them shelter before murdering them and selling their bodies to a mysterious gentleman—a scheme that nets him blood money and silence. When a young earl's body is used to establish a false death for inheritance purposes, Jasper thinks himself clever; but the original corpse he'd disposed of returns from the sea with vengeance on its mind. A tale of greed and supernatural reckoning in "Return of the Corpse."

When Andy Jones unearths a rotting stake while excavating the basement of his new Salem home, he unknowingly frees an ancient evil—the Green Witch, a centuries-old specter who takes possession of his young bride, Sandra. As the possessed woman wreaks havoc on everyone around Andy with escalating cruelty and recklessness, Andy begins to suspect the impossible truth and races to uncover the dark history buried beneath his house.