Worlds of Fear #9

When Mr. Bradley discovers his prize-winning garden has lost its edge because the soil's mineral-rich cemetery foundation is depleting, he becomes increasingly desperate to reclaim his one claim to superiority over the poor farm's inmates. His desperation plants a horrifying seed: what if he could replenish the soil the way it was originally enriched? As Mr. Bradley pursues his grim solution, the garden begins to yield results—but at a cost he may not be prepared to face.

In a remote Rumanian village, the once-revered tailor Janus Scabroz, haunted by past violence and tormented by a blackmailed witness, crafts a sinister garment with deadly intent—only time will tell what fate awaits the man who forced him to the edge.

In the wake of a mysterious accident, scientist Philip Watson finds himself hearing the voices of rodents—voices that whisper of a vast, coordinated plan to overthrow humanity. As he races to devise a countermeasure, he becomes the target of a relentless campaign by forest creatures, each more determined than the last to stop him.

In "Death's Bride-Groom," sculptor Sean Corey unwittingly awakens ancient evil when he carves a statue from a cursed tree. When the figure comes to life as the spectral Daemona, she claims him as her eternal lover—drawing him into a realm beyond the living.