Vault of Evil #5

In "My Friend the Ghost," a doctor’s chilling scheme to inherit his family’s fortune takes a horrifying turn when his plan to fake a ghostly return goes fatally wrong. After betraying his friend by poisoning him instead of drugging him, the man awakens to find himself truly dead—bound to haunt the very man who killed him.

In "On the Spot," a desperate actor’s rage turns deadly when he discovers his girlfriend’s secret affair with the stage director. After a brutal act of violence, he’s sentenced to death and escapes, only to be hunted through a darkened theater where the spotlight—once a symbol of his fame—becomes his final, inescapable prison.

In the grim aftermath of an atomic war, a desperate grocer named Snively takes refuge in his bomb shelter, stockpiling canned goods in a final bid for survival. But when the dust settles, his hoard proves useless—his fate sealed not by scarcity, but by a single, overlooked detail.