Journey into Fear #17
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Deadline for Death" follows a columnist named Earl Watson who is pressured by his boss to come up with a major story to renew his contract; he teams up with criminals Rufe and Abner to uncover hidden money, but their scheme goes awry when they encounter real danger. "Vampires Two" depicts a man who, desperate and out of work, arranges a black wedding ceremony with vampires to solve his financial problems, but the supernatural arrangement nearly costs him his life and forces him to seek a cover-up for his involvement.
Earl Watson, a gossip columnist desperate to save his fading career, discovers a mysterious typewriter in his office that delivers scoops so accurate they propel him back to the top—but each story comes with a deadly price he never anticipated. As Earl finds himself entangled in the machine's cryptic prophecies and his own reckless choices, he'll discover that some deadlines can't be missed, and some debts demand a terrible reckoning.
On a lonely mountain farm, a scheming pair—the hired man Rufe and his accomplice Lizzie—plot to murder old Abner Baines and claim his hidden fortune, devising what they believe is the perfect crime: replacing the farm's worn scarecrow with Abner's body so it will hide in plain sight. But when they return to search for the treasure, they find the scarecrow gone, and something far more sinister waiting for them in the cornfield.
William Torrance, a reclusive scholar of the occult living in vampire-haunted Gauntsville, arranges to marry a mysterious woman named Amy Stanton who arrives from California—only to discover that his new bride may be connected to the very creature terrorizing his town. As William's suspicions grow and the vampire attacks intensify, he realizes the horrifying truth about his "heaven-sent" solution to his problems. This tale of dark irony reveals that sometimes the answer to your prayers can be far more dangerous than the problem itself.
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