Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #26

When a sportsman's plane crashes in the African jungle, a mysterious witch doctor named Molonovu saves his life—but refuses payment, cryptically promising that Byron Byrd will settle his debt another day. Years later, as Byrd rises to become an honest mayor fighting organized crime, Molonovu's agent arrives to collect: a favor that tests whether Byrd's newfound principles run deeper than the strange magic that gave him his second chance. A taut tale of gratitude, ambition, and the price of redemption from *Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds* #26.

A real estate agent named George Pauling buys a desolate, decades-abandoned cottage dirt cheap, planning to flip it for profit—but when his wife Lola returns alone to scout renovation details, she stumbles into an old well and finds herself trapped in darkness, terrorized by unseen terrors and a mysterious presence yanking at a rotted rope from above. As panic overwhelms her, Lola's mind fractures into a haunting dream that reveals the cottage's tragic past and the sorrow that may still linger within its walls.

When a visionary industrialist named Robert Four revolutionizes the automobile market with impossibly cheap, flawlessly made cars, rival manufacturers grow suspicious—and discover his secret is far darker than mere efficiency. Arnold Mills and his colleagues uncover a chilling truth: Four's workforce isn't human, and his ambitions extend far beyond dominating a single industry. As Four reveals plans that threaten to reshape society itself, fate may intervene in the most unexpected way.

Charles B. Good, a man blessed with unshakeable faith that misfortune cannot touch him or those he loves, takes a job managing finances for businessman Clayton Trask, who's selling stock in a nuclear-reactor power syndicate with promises of enormous returns. As months pass and Trask travels the world collecting millions from hopeful investors, Charles begins to suspect the project may be a fraud—but his quiet conviction that things will work out keeps him grounded and in charge of operations. When Trask is arrested in London for what appears to be a massive financial hoax, Charles's belief in the impossible is put to its ultimate test.