Worlds of Fear #8

In "……?", Mona Harris greets her fiancé Paul Fowler after his return from a jungle expedition, but something feels off—Paul has changed since surviving a plane crash and being cared for by an alien, living protoplasm. The story unfolds with quiet dread as the line between salvation and transformation blurs.

In "The Phantom Gloves," sports reporter Jack Lonergan, driven by idle curiosity, declares himself a warlock and curses a pair of boxing gloves—only to find their deadly power far more real than he ever imagined. The story unfolds with a chilling blend of suspense and irony, as the gloves begin to deliver victory in ways no fighter could foresee.

Two greedy men brave a nor'easter to reach an isolated island, where they find an old sea captain gripped by inexplicable terror—and a story about a cursed golden idol stolen from a South Seas burial ground years ago. When Cyrus Hawkins reveals the supernatural debt hanging over him, the men see an opportunity, but their hunger for the idol's true riches sets them on a collision course with forces they can't control. "The Curse of Manu" explores what happens when greed blinds you to warnings written in blood and curse alike.