Nightmare #5

In "Slime World," a couple exploring the famed sewers of Paris stumbles upon a hidden society of cannibalistic mutants, plunging them into a nightmare beneath the city's surface. The story unfolds with creeping dread, as the familiar becomes grotesquely alien in the dark, damp tunnels.

In "Whence Stalked the Werewolf," a modern man's mind is unlocked by a doctor's hypnosis, revealing a shocking past: in the 19th century, he was a werewolf hunted and slain by a mob. Now, in the present, the spell of the past awakens within him, and the beast stirs once more.

In the 12th century, Europe trembles as a mysterious "Doom Star" looms in the sky, driving people to madness. A lone knight encounters a strange spacecraft carrying humanoid animals, who deliver a dire warning: humanity's self-destructive path must change—or face its end.

In "Creature of the Deep," the ocean’s devastation has birthed monstrous creatures that rise from the depths to terrorize the coast, while the very radiation meant to stop them seeps into the water supply—leaving behind a chilling new threat in the form of mutant infants. Written by an unknown hand and illustrated by an unknown artist, this 1971 horror-suspense tale turns the sea into a nightmare, where survival means facing what humanity itself has created.

In a tense German army camp during World War II, a series of brutal murders shakes the ranks, leading to suspicion and paranoia as officers dismiss reports of a vampire as enemy propaganda. When a mysterious Austrian officer, Oberst Hans Snookler, is questioned over his unusual name and background, the investigation spirals into a web of deception and hidden identity.

In the grim depths of a 16th-century Inquisition chamber, a nobleman named Don Alexandre Guisante returns to confess his sins to the corpse of Elena Calcin, the woman he betrayed and condemned. As he stands over her mutilated body, he is confronted by Judge Fuerter, the very man who sentenced her—now returned to reclaim the body, and furious at the confession he has just overheard.