Tomb of Darkness #9

In "The Man in the Tomb!" from Tomb of Darkness #9 (1974), a scientist faces an unbearable choice: to end the world’s cycle of war by letting humanity perish in fifty years—or to stop it, knowing the same destruction will rise again. The weight of his invention, and the silence of the tomb that holds its secret, press down on him like a final verdict.

In "Juggernaut," a desperate priest leads his followers to a grim fate, urging them to die beneath a heavy cart so he can claim their possessions. That night, the cart comes to life, chasing him up a hill—its wheels rolling with unnatural force, and the priest realizes too late that the ghosts of the men he betrayed are driving it.

In "Good Morning, Mr. Smith!", a severed head finds a chilling way to reclaim control, using hypnotic power to manipulate a surgeon into swapping their own head for its own—placing the doctor’s head into life support while the head takes over the body. The story unfolds with a cold, creeping dread, turning a medical procedure into a grotesque act of vengeance.

In "The Living and the Dead!" from Tomb of Darkness #9 (1974), Oscar Holmes—arrogant, skeptical, and obsessed with stealing his friend John’s stories—finds himself trapped in a remote cottage where the line between fiction and reality begins to unravel. What starts as a clever prank turns into a chilling test of belief when the eerie silence of the woods and the whispers of forgotten tales begin to close in.