Vault of Horror #13

In "The Dead Will Return!", a young woman and her lover flee the scene of a murder, only to find that their victim refuses to stay buried—each time they dispose of the body, it washes back ashore, more insistent than before. As fear takes hold in the isolated lighthouse, the line between the living and the drowned begins to blur, and the sea itself seems to have a mind of its own. When the light goes out and a trail of seawater leads up the tower, the horror isn't just in what they've done—but in what’s coming back.

In the decaying halls of Harkley Heath, the last heirs of a cursed bloodline gather to claim their inheritance—only to learn that the fortune goes not to them, but to a distant cousin, Sybil Harkley. When the brothers Charles and Edgar, driven by greed and the shadow of their uncle’s dying curse, plot to silence her with the same morphine that killed their uncle, they unleash something far worse than they imagined. The story unfolds with chilling precision, where legacy and vengeance blur, and the dead may not stay buried.

In "Doctor of Horror," the newly appointed Governor of the Hampshire Surgeon School, Dr. Finch, is blindsided by a rising star—Professor Alfred LeMonet, whose shocking methods in anatomy instruction draw unprecedented enrollment. As LeMonet's obsession with cadavers grows, he orchestrates a chilling scheme to eliminate rivals and seize power, only to find himself caught in a deadly twist when his own body is mistaken for one of the victims.

In the shadowed pages of *Vault of Horror #13*, Steve Crane and his partner Alec crash-land on a remote island, their plane swallowed by the sea. When Steve awakens, he finds himself in the grip of Count Alvar Cabeza, a host whose kindness masks a chilling game—one that turns the hunted into the hunted, and the living into trophies.