The Crypt of Terror #19

In "The Hungry Grave," Ed Greene's wife Ida, driven by hatred, attempts to poison him with arsenic—only to find his body adapting to the toxin. When Ed discovers Ida’s plan to abandon him in a grave for her lover Jim Kelleber, he turns the tables, poisoning her and sealing her in the sack meant for her escape. As Jim digs the grave, he doesn’t realize he’s burying not just Ida, but the beginning of a far more terrible reckoning.

In a museum where ancient secrets stir, a nervous assistant curator named Homer Perry is ordered to replace his own exhibit with a newly discovered Neanderthal specimen, threatening his hard-earned reputation. When he tries to eliminate the competition by exposing the fossil to sunlight, he unleashes something far older—and far more dangerous—than he ever imagined.