Out of the Shadows #9

Jo and her new husband return from their honeymoon to find their friend’s suicide has left a terrible weight in the air—especially when his corpse rises from the grave and begins to haunt their home. A chilling tale of love, grief, and the dead who won’t stay buried, told with quiet dread and a creeping sense of inevitability.

When Helen Sherman scoffs at the legend of Candle Lodge's haunted woodshed—where a Revolutionary War soldier was betrayed and murdered centuries ago—she and fellow vacationer Pascal Balmer dare each other to break in and prove the old story false. What they find instead is very much real, and far more vengeful than any ghost story could prepare them for.

In "Till Death Do Us Part," Charles uncovers a chilling secret: his sister-in-law, long believed dead, is being kept alive in secret—her body preserved and displayed as a veiled mummy to maintain a fraudulent claim on his inheritance. The story unfolds with a creeping dread as Charles confronts the grotesque truth behind the town’s quiet rituals.

In "Hanged by the Neck," the once-great magician El Rondo lets jealousy twist his act into a deadly spectacle, hanging his assistant mid-performance. Haunted by the ghost of his victim, El Rondo soon finds himself trapped in a nightmare where the past comes calling—literally.

A wealthy sportsman arrives at Arizona's El Rancho Capitano in 1900, determined to capture the legendary gray stallion that roams wild across the ranch—a magnificent and dangerous horse with a fearsome reputation among the old-timers. With his guide Pedro, he sets out to track the untamed beast, drawn by its mystique and the challenge it represents. What unfolds is a tale of man versus nature on the frontier, where one horse's fiery spirit tests the limits of ambition and will.