Mystic #23

In "Don't Shrink Sam's Head," a collector with a morbid fascination for horror relics risks his life to acquire a shrunken head from Jivaro country—only to hire a scientist to make his own head unshrinkable. When captured by the tribe, he strikes a desperate bargain: if they can’t shrink his head, they’ll give him one of theirs and let him go. The deal goes sideways in ways he never expected, leaving him with a body that’s changed in ways he never planned.

In "Mother Knows Best," a quiet moment between a mother and daughter takes a haunting turn when the younger girl dismisses her mother’s belief that the moon controls the tides. Years later, now a mother herself, she tries to share that same story with her own child—only to be met with a question that echoes across generations, leaving her with a chill she can’t explain.