Strange Stories from Another World #5

In "Dance of the Doomed," Peter Karnol ventures into forbidden knowledge, drawn by a fabled book that promises the secret of the evil dead. What he discovers in its pages is not enlightenment, but a glimpse of hell—forever altering his fate.

In "Vampire's Daughter!" from *Strange Stories from Another World* #5 (1953), Hollywood’s spotlight turns a spotlight on young Althea, casting her as a vampire in a film—only to blur the line between fiction and fear. As whispers grow and a shocking death shakes the studio, the truth behind the legend begins to twist in ways no one expected.

In "The Rain, the Deadly Rain!" from Strange Stories from Another World #5 (1953), Amazon explorer Oliver Rudd steals the sacred jewels from an idol of a rain god—only to be pursued by a relentless, murderous downpour that follows him from the jungle to his own doorstep. As he scrambles to undo his curse with a desperate sacrifice, fate has other plans.

Karl Malden murders his business partner Steve Gorm in a brutal scheme to claim sole ownership of their steel mill—but when the old mill hand Anton Marek threatens to expose the crime, Malden discovers that some vengeance cannot be buried, no matter how scattered. As supernatural forces tied to Gorm's death close in, Malden finds himself trapped in a nightmare of his own making, where escape proves far more elusive than he ever imagined.