Out of the Night #15
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis issue is an anthology containing at least two stories. "The Sacred Rope!" recounts eerie tales from the yellowed records of African slave vessels, focusing on a supernatural curse whereby enslaved people invoke their ancestors' wrath upon their captors aboard a slave ship in 1794, resulting in the crew meeting gruesome fates at sea. "Howard's Vengeance" depicts a man and woman plotting to murder an elderly man named Howard by exploiting a weak heart condition, engineering what appears to be a perfect crime, only to encounter supernatural retribution from forces of natural justice that transforms their intended victims into corpses of their own making.
When a young woman and her fiancé Dr. Philip Roberts visit his reclusive uncle Otto for the weekend, they discover the old man's decades-long nightmare is terrifyingly real—a vampire has hunted him relentlessly since childhood and has finally tracked him down. As the creature closes in and takes Fran hostage to force Otto's surrender, the desperate uncle must turn the tables on his supernatural pursuer before nightfall claims them all. Otto's fifty-year flight ends in a desperate gambit that traps both predator and prey in a battle where mortal cunning faces immortal rage.
In 1794, aboard the slave ship "Black Knight," a tribal shaman attempts to invoke ancestral spirits against his captors using a sacred rope—only to face brutal punishment for his defiance. When Mr. Parker and the crew dispose of the shaman and cast the rope into the sea, strange consequences begin to unfold. This chilling tale explores the supernatural price of cruelty and the power of a cursed relic.
Tom Standish, a space scientist, launches his ship toward Uranus in a race to claim its uranium deposits—but saboteurs send him and Evelyn into the void, where their crippled vessel crashes on one of Uranus's moons. After a harrowing escape from prehistoric beasts, they reach the planet only to be captured by Russian forces under Vladimir and Lo Ja, who plan to use the uranium for world domination. Tom must fight his way free, seize the uranium, and outrun his pursuers in a desperate flight back to Earth.
An archeologist and his wife arrive at an unexplored Brazilian island for what should be the perfect honeymoon, but their discovery of an ancient tomb and its mysterious inhabitant—a creature dressed in garments from a civilization two million years dead—awakens something far older and more sinister than either Johnny Chadwick or Sheila could have imagined. As the little furry things of the island begin to move with purpose, the couple finds themselves trapped, caught between the remnants of a prehistoric world and forces that seem determined to reclaim what was lost. Written by the creative team at Out of the Night, "The Little Furry Things!" is a chilling tale where the past refuses to stay buried.
When a scheming couple murders their elderly husband Howard for his fortune, they believe they've pulled off the perfect crime—until they find themselves isolated at one of his remote lumber camps, where justice of a far more supernatural kind begins to close in.
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Reprinted in Vampires and Their Victims #[nn] (2025)
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