Out of the Night #16

Professor Callen's Arctic expedition discovers the frozen remains of a giant from a lost race of titans, and brings the remarkable find back to his laboratory for study—but when the creature's body is accidentally damaged during transport, the professor makes a shocking discovery: the giant still shows signs of life. As Callen works to keep the creature alive through extraordinary scientific means, he awakens something that has slept for uncounted ages, and must reckon with forces far beyond his understanding. Milo Garne's obsession with the giant's promised wealth threatens to cloud the professor's judgment in ways neither man can yet foresee.

Slim Warren has spent fifteen years running the switch house at a railroad tunnel, watching his relief man Bailey get the promotion he desperately wanted—and when Bailey asks him to cover the night shift so he can celebrate, Warren's resentment boils over into a terrible impulse that sends a train hurtling toward disaster. Now, as the wreckage is cleared and the death toll mounts, Warren must find evidence of his crime before it's discovered, but the tunnel itself seems determined to exact its own justice in "The Tunnel!"

When Hilda Scott is visited by a mysterious, otherworldly vision of her brother Silas the night he dies, she receives a cryptic message that only she can decipher—one that leads to a hidden fortune and a legal battle over who truly deserved his inheritance. As skeptics challenge her claim in court, Hilda must prove that the supernatural contact was genuine, using the very knowledge Silas imparted to her from beyond. Published in *Out of the Night* #16, "The Legacy" is a clever tale where the impossible becomes evidence.

When a young woman and her new husband venture into the Smoky Mountains for a honeymoon hunt, they encounter the strange locals—including the possessive Katie and her grandmother, a woman rumored to practice dark mountain magic. After a deadly struggle forces Maria to shoot Katie in self-defense, an ancient superstition comes terrifyingly to life: the grandmother's black cat jumps over the corpse, and Katie rises as a vampire bent on claiming John for herself. Now trapped in a nightmare of folklore made flesh, John and Maria must hunt down the cat before the creature can take what it wants.

In "The Cat Jumped Over the Corpse," Katie’s obsession with John Hale ends in tragedy when her murderous attempt against his wife Maria goes wrong. After a black cat leaps over her corpse, she awakens—changed, hungry, and bound to a new, unnatural existence.

Three murderous desperadoes fleeing the law find temporary refuge with a peaceful tribe in Northern Wyoming, welcomed by the young medicine man Little Cloud—but their gratitude masks darker intentions. When the outlaws betray their hosts' generosity and return with reinforcements to seize the tribe's treasure, Little Cloud summons forces beyond the mortal world to settle the score. This 1954 tale of frontier treachery and supernatural reckoning pits greed against ancient power in a story where some debts demand payment from beyond the grave.