Out of the Night #8

When a cheap crook named Jabber Janx encounters a mysterious stranger in the night, he's offered a fateful gift: the number seven as his lucky charm—but with a terrible warning that misusing it will bring destruction. Over the following week, Jabber's newfound wealth from gambling seems to confirm the number's power, until greed and desperation push him to use it in darker ways, and the true cost of his fortune begins to close in. A chilling tale of how ambition and the wrong choice can turn luck itself into a noose.

Archeologist Ivan Gubitchev unearths a legendary artifact in the Iranian desert—the magical Belt of Ahriman, a source of boundless power that grants wishes to its wearer. When he tests the belt's power and realizes its potential as a weapon for his country, Gubitchev begins to see his dreams manifest, but he soon discovers that wielding such evil power comes with cosmic consequences. A thrilling 1953 tale of ancient legend and the corrupting nature of absolute power.

An ancient curse haunts a remote northern pool: a great chief named Tehakumsa, frozen by a vengeful frost god centuries ago, now claims victims with his deathly touch. When Roy Wilson dismisses the legend as folklore, he and his wife Mary discover the horror is terrifyingly real—and the Frozen Ghost is hunting them. As the supernatural terror closes in, Roy must find a way to survive an enemy that cannot be reasoned with or outrun.

Dr. Josiah R. Vanderholt arrives in the French village of Pont de Lussan during his vacation, only to learn of a centuries-old curse: every year on the anniversary of a sorcerer's death, a phantom-driven black hearse appears to claim victims marked with the wounds of stones. Determined to uncover the truth behind the legend, the skeptical doctor stays the night and witnesses the impossible hearse for himself, leading to a harrowing encounter with forces beyond rational explanation.

Diana Lawton has avoided Lawton Manor for years because of a family legend: a phantom that appears before death strikes. Now, persuaded by her fiancé Bill Morley to spend a weekend there, she arrives at the brooding estate—only to glimpse a horrifying specter that seems to confirm her worst fears. As the phantom appears again that night, Diana must confront whether the legend is real, or if something far more sinister is unfolding behind the manor's shadowed walls.