The Hand of Fate #14

Jo, a struggling singer in 1952 Paris, clings to her dream despite repeated rejections—until Count Rompre offers a way in. When her boyfriend Bob warns her the count is a demon feeding on the souls of the undead, Jo must decide whether to trust her heart or the chilling truth.

When Kate visits the grave of her fiancé Yates' late wife to pay her respects, she witnesses a cobra emerging from the coffin—and discovers that Yates harbors a terrifying secret about his marriage. As the deadly serpent claims victims and the truth unravels at the cemetery, Kate and a stranger named George find themselves caught between Yates' desperate attempts to contain the horror and a creature far more sinister than any natural predator.

In "No Escape From Nightmare," psychology professor Ramon Blagdon pushes the limits of the mind and the unknown, only to find that some doors, once opened, cannot be closed. When his experiments with the astral plane lead him to commit crimes beyond the physical world, Fate intervenes—dragging him into a nightmare he can never wake from.

In the shadowed streets of 1952 Vienna, a sinister doll maker traps souls within lifelike mannequins, and young American Wade Farman finds himself ensnared in his twisted workshop. With eerie precision and a mind bent on horror, the craftsman turns his victims into silent, soul-bound dolls—until Wade, desperate and defiant, begins to fight back.