Adventures into the Unknown #23

Jack Carter, a commercial pilot searching the Amazon jungle for his missing friend Bill Hawkins, discovers a concealed runway and a mysterious jet—but his discovery comes at a deadly cost when the plane shoots him down. Rescued and brought to Dr. Maxime Morenz's hidden compound, Jack finds Bill alive and piloting the aircraft, yet unable to recognize him; the horrifying truth emerges when Jack learns that Bill and the other workers are zombies, raised and enslaved by the mad doctor to harvest narcotics and make secret deliveries. Now trapped in this nightmare colony, Jack must navigate the doctor's sinister hospitality and uncover the dark ritual that binds these walking dead to their master.

A man rescues a sleek black cat from the woods, only to discover it's no ordinary feline—it's somehow luring people to their deaths, and a mysterious grave slab hints at a sinister truth buried beneath. As the man races to uncover what the creature really is, he finds himself drawn to a beautiful woman who seems to hold the answers, even as more deaths pile up and whispers of witchcraft spread through town. Suspense and supernatural horror collide in "The Thing That Lived Again," a tale that asks how far you'd go to save someone from their own dark nature.

A mysterious werewolf begins stalking the Cummings ranch, killing livestock and ranch hands—and Kurt, the family's brooding young cousin, seems oddly eager to hunt it down. As the body count rises and suspicion falls on the supernatural beast, Kurt's true motives lurk beneath a carefully maintained facade of concern. In this eerie tale from 1951, greed and ancient family secrets transform the western frontier into a hunting ground where nothing is as it seems.

Samuel Coulter, a broken seventy-year-old man on the brink of despair, receives a supernatural intervention on his birthday that sets him on an extraordinary path—one involving his grandfather's clock and a chance to help others. When a miraculous reversal of aging begins affecting everyone around him, Samuel must grapple with the consequences of his newfound power and the chaos it unleashes. A tale of second chances gone haywire, "When Time Turned Back" explores what happens when one man's wish for redemption spirals far beyond his control.

Kenny Antron and Nick Martoni ignore a crystal-gazer's dire warning about their planned jewelry heist, convinced her prediction is mere hokum—until a blinding snowstorm forces them to seek shelter at a desolate farmhouse, where a mysterious host and increasingly disturbing signs suggest Madame Mystic's vision may have been all too real. As supernatural dread closes in, the two criminals find themselves trapped between their greed and an inescapable fate.