Misty #16th June 1979 [71]

In the eerie halls of a remote boarding school, Sharon finds herself trapped in a tower after a strange liquid plunges her into a nightmare. With the headmistress acting more and more unnervingly, Sharon sends a desperate message to a little girl below, clinging to hope as night closes in. When a sudden knock echoes through the silence, the door creaks open—revealing the very figure she feared.

In a quiet English household haunted by grief and mystery, Jo finds herself drawn into a strange chain of events after her cousin Sharon falls ill from drinking from an antique loving cup—once given to her by her late mother. That night, a dream brings a ghostly woman’s warning: the cup holds power, but only if it’s not locked away. When Jo wakes to find cash raining from her cousin’s dress, the line between dream and reality begins to blur.

In "The Long Ride of Laura Rogers..." from Misty #16th June 1979, Laura, bound by a twisted leg from a childhood accident, finds unexpected kinship with a foal rejected for its deformities. When whispers of the creature draw dangerous attention, she mounts the horse—now grown and winged—and rides it into the wild, fleeing into the unknown.

Jo, a quiet girl with a sweet tooth, finds herself drawn to the jelly bellies from Mr. Black’s shop—so much so that her friends start to notice something strange. When they point out a chilling resemblance between the candies and two girls who vanished without a trace, Jo’s innocent treat takes on a far more unsettling meaning.

In "Wolf Girl," Lona—raised by a wolf after her parents' death—struggles to reconcile her wild instincts with the life she's built among people. As memories of her upbringing resurface, she flees from suspicion, seeking refuge in a closet lined with fur coats that echo her lost mother. The story unfolds with quiet dread, exploring the fragile line between nature and nurture.