Strange Fantasy #14

A ruthless gangland boss named Nails Malone schemes to fake his own death to escape a rival gang's hit, staging an elaborate ruse with his girlfriend Marsha—only to discover that his carefully laid plans have consequences neither of them anticipated. When those he's wronged in life discover the truth, Nails finds himself caught between the living and the dead in a way that no clever con can escape. It's a darkly ironic tale of karma delivered from beyond the grave.

Newlyweds Joe and Debbie Dexter plan a romantic honeymoon in the abandoned ghost town of Salt Flats—until armed criminals arrive seeking refuge from the law, trapping the couple inside their trailer. When Joe's long-dead grandfather, the town's former sheriff, manifests as a vengeful specter to protect his kin, gunfire erupts once more in the deserted streets. Can the supernatural lawman settle the score before the gangsters harm an innocent couple?

In "Demon's Doom," the sadistic hangman George Worth fixates on one final execution—hanging a woman—until Mona Trent is sentenced to death. He manipulates the prison clock to ensure her reprieve never comes, driven by a dark obsession. When her brother arrives seeking justice, Worth’s twisted ambition may finally meet its reckoning.

Lieutenant Paul Andrews thought he'd seen everything in ten years on the force, but nothing prepared him for the night a genuinely alien horror—a reptilian creature that laughs in the dark—started hunting inside the Schriber Building. When bullets prove useless and the lieutenant realizes the monster may be far more than just a killer in an armored suit, he finds himself face to face with something that transcends the laws of physics and human understanding. This 1954 tale from *Strange Fantasy* cuts between hard-boiled detective work and genuine cosmic terror, as Andrews discovers that some threats can't be stopped with a service revolver.