Adventures into the Unknown #40

In a quiet Alpine village, the Snow Maiden—born of frost and silence—steps down from the peaks to find warmth among the people below. When love stirs in her frozen heart, the Ice King’s wrath brings ruin, burying all in snow. Decades later, sculptor Gil discovers her preserved heart in the ruins, and with careful hands, breathes new life into her form. But the ancient force of ice has followed, crossing oceans to end her rebirth—before she can know what it means to be alive.

Young Bobby dreams about flying on a broomstick and discovers his fantasy made real when the Little Witch appears, whisking him away to her magical realm—but his adventure comes with a price when his homework mysteriously gets done using methods he hasn't learned yet. As Bobby faces disappointment and his father's skepticism, the Little Witch must decide what kind of farewell gift to leave behind for a boy who's being forced to grow up and forget her.

Cal Craig is on his way to see his sweetheart receive her law degree when a detour through a cemetery lands him in the middle of a supernatural gathering—a meeting of soul collectors, spectral beings who maintain a book of the dead and plan which mortals will be taken next. After witnessing their forbidden rites, Cal finds himself transformed into something inhuman and marked for death, forcing his beloved Selma Jones to fight for his life in a bizarre trial against the forces of the beyond. This twisted tale of love against the supernatural explores what happens when the living stumble into the realm of the departed and discover that some debts can only be paid in eternity.

Tad Haver, an honor student troubled by a lecture on the duality of human nature, falls into an unnatural sleep—and awakens to find his evil self has somehow materialized into a separate, physical form intent on murder. As the creature commits terrible crimes while Tad himself is accused and his fiancée Rhea grows desperate to stop the killings, the young man races to understand the impossible and find a way to destroy his sinister double before it's too late.

Battista Seni, a 17th-century Italian mystic with uncanny powers of divination, reads the horoscope of a young visitor named Albrecht von Wallenstein—and predicts a future marked by great power and military conquest, shadowed by a fateful doom. As years pass and Seni's prophecies prove eerily accurate, Wallenstein rises to become one of Europe's most formidable rulers, yet cannot escape the destiny the astrologer foretold.