Web of Mystery #16

In "Today You Die!", petty thief Joe Billings stumbles upon a hidden 13th floor—beyond the ordinary, deep in the afterworld’s offices—only to be told his time hasn’t come yet. Fleeing the building, he’s struck by a truck, and now, with no escape, his time has finally arrived.

In a quiet street of old Shanghai, a stolen jade dragon stirs to life—its ancient eyes gleaming under the lantern light. When the thief flees with the cursed artifact, the statue moves on its own, its silent wrath a whisper in the night.

In the damp silence of a forgotten German castle, Ulrik the hangman stirs after three centuries of sleep, awakened by grave robbers who soon meet his grim fate. Bound by a cursed vow to hang two hundred souls, he now stands one short—until a final, fatal fall from a tower ends his torment.

In the frozen forests of Siberia, lumberjack Igor Gola meets a sudden end when a tree crashes down on him—only to return as a ghost, silently cheering on his comrades from beyond. This eerie tale from *Web of Mystery #16* blends folklore and the supernatural with a quiet, haunting presence that lingers long after the axe falls.

Explorer Dr. Martin Bertwin and his assistant Hugo Durand finally reach the legendary secret city hidden deep in the Cambodian jungle—only to discover it's ruled by Thier-Ish-Derei, a malevolent animal goddess who has enslaved the souls of countless intruders, trapping them in monstrous animal forms. As the explorers become caught in her supernatural realm, they must confront shape-shifting creatures and an ancient ritual that threatens to transform them into beasts forever.

In the thick, moon-drenched swamps of the South, a creeping dread stirs beneath the cypress trees. When Professor Bates arrives to uncover the truth behind the local terror, he finds himself drawn into a chilling mystery that leads straight to Mrs. Corneley—known to the superstitious as "Wanda the swamp witch"—and her eerie, unliving servant.