Mysterious Adventures #13

Freddy Lake, a charming but ruthless gigolo, arrives at the isolated Sherman estate to begin a new scheme, drawn by a wealthy widow’s letter promising fortune. As he settles into the eerie, silent household, he begins to suspect something is deeply wrong—especially when the reclusive Lydia Sherman remains unseen, and the housekeeper’s grim demeanor hints at a dark secret.

Randy Cooper returns home to New York after surviving a near-fatal encounter in Africa, reunited with his wife Bernice and their new servant, Buona. Soon after Bernice dies unexpectedly, Randy begins to suspect something is wrong when he wakes to find her alive — but her presence grows increasingly unsettling, and he struggles to reconcile the woman he loved with the living dead she now appears to be.

In 17th-century Salem, Tituba, a young woman fleeing a death sentence in Haiti, finds refuge with Captain Edward Harris and his family, including his daughter Mary Harris. As strange deaths plague the town and the townspeople turn on Tituba once more, her return from the grave unleashes a new terror—her vengeance is only beginning.

In a dimly lit 19th-century English office, Lawyer Jeremiah Land, consumed by resentment toward the pious Tim Dawes, plots a scheme that begins with theft from his firm’s vault and spirals into a scandal that will haunt England for years. As he prepares to expose Dawes, the weight of his deception and the quiet judgment of the man he despises begin to close in.

Eben Thwaite, the town mortician ridiculed for years, lets his obsession with Ann Hale and resentment toward the townspeople consume him, orchestrating a twisted plan to eliminate her husband and parents in a staged accident. When Ann miraculously survives the crash, Eben is thrown into a spiral of delusion, convinced he can now possess her forever in his mortuary sanctuary. As he reveals his macabre collection of severed body parts—each a symbol of his revenge—Ann awakens, confronting the horrifying truth of what he’s done.