Adventures into the Unknown #25

Clint Desmond is sent into the remote and dangerous Naga Hills of Assam to investigate reports of were-tigers terrorizing engineers and forcing local head-hunting tribes to kill all outsiders. Posing as one of the mysterious tiger-men after downing a guard, Clint discovers that Tigra—a young woman with uncanny, feline qualities—may actually be capable of transforming into a real tiger, and that both she and the natives answer to someone called Zortan. As Clint grows closer to Tigra and uncovers the truth behind the superstitious fear gripping the hills, he finds himself caught between his mission and a growing confusion about what Tigra truly is.

Dru Parry wakes in a hospital bed after a plane crash has left her blind, and undergoes an experimental corneal transplant to restore her vision—using tissue from the one other survivor of the crash. But as her sight returns, she begins seeing impossible things: ghostly figures no one else can perceive, and a mysterious hollow-voiced visitor in her hospital room. Dr. John Kirkwood races to uncover the truth behind her visions before a terrifying secret about the source of her new eyes catches up with them both.

When art expert Richard Small is hired by Mr. MacPherson to authenticate a portrait of the legendary pirate Captain Cutt, he discovers that infrared examination brings the painted buccaneer to life—literally. Now Richard must contend with a vengeful 18th-century corsair loose in 20th-century New York, searching for his buried treasure and growing increasingly dangerous as the bewildered pirate navigates a world he doesn't understand. With his fiancée Nancy caught in the chaos, Richard faces a race against time to solve the mystery of how to return Captain Cutt to the canvas before tragedy strikes.

Alan Hartwood, the supernatural expert behind "Adventures into the Unknown," stumbles upon a terrifying gathering in the Adirondacks: Satan himself has summoned a legion of demons, vampires, and werewolves to destroy the magazine and eliminate Hartwood before it exposes any more of their secrets. Racing back to New York with this knowledge, Hartwood must defend both the magazine's offices and its editor from the supernatural assault that follows, armed only with his wits and his arsenal of mystical weapons.

In 1850s Charleston, Dr. Karl Henderson earns renown for his surgical skill before becoming obsessed with a radical belief: that the spirits of the dead linger and can be recalled through force of will. After a fateful encounter in an abandoned graveyard, Henderson finds himself devoted to a spectral companion named Helen, leading him down a path of increasingly desperate and dangerous experiments. This haunting tale explores what one man will sacrifice—and destroy—in his quest to defy death itself.