Worlds of Fear #5

In "Heartbeat House," a doctor and a lawyer conspire to murder the reclusive clock collector Augustus Uhr, believing his fortune is ripe for the taking. But as their plan unfolds in the creaking, time-obsessed mansion, they begin to suspect the house itself might be alive — and listening.

"Papa" Pierre Gutro, a struggling puppet-master down on his luck, carves a puppet named Jojo from wood taken off an old execution tree—and his creation becomes an unexpected sensation on stage. But as Jojo's popularity grows, Pierre begins to suspect the puppet has taken on a terrible life of its own, growing increasingly demanding and sinister. Now bound to his own creation, Pierre discovers that Jojo's ambitions extend far beyond the theatre into the dark streets of the town.

Dr. Rypton, a fanatic experimenter in life and death, exhumes the freshly buried Robert Dinsmore to fuel his mad resurrection experiments—but his grave-robbing unleashes something far worse than he imagined. Haunted by visions and tormented by an inexplicable plague of crawling worms that seem to possess a terrible purpose, the doctor descends into a nightmare where the very forces of the tomb close in on him in ways science cannot explain. "The Conqueror Worm," illustrated across ten pages of pure horror, explores the price of violating death itself.