Baffling Mysteries #12

In the jungles of Sumatra, big game hunter Deerson ignores warnings about the "tiger people" and kills a noble tiger, beheading it in a moment of arrogance. Haunted by visions of a headless man and drawn by the mysterious princess Tigrina, he returns to the wild—only to face a terrifying transformation and retribution.

In "Paint a Picture in Crimson," Count Damon—a figure both devilish and artistic—lives and works in Soho, London, where his brushstrokes seem to shape fate itself. When a model marries a lord, her life spirals into darkness, leading to a series of murders that end in her own violent death at the hands of her husband, who reveals a monstrous secret. The story unfolds with eerie precision, its chilling tone underscored by typeset letters from Leroy.

In a remote corner of the Balkans, a duchess seizes a golden mirror from a gypsy woman—only to meet a fate tied to her own reflection. As the mirror’s curse takes hold, her final moments are frozen in its polished surface.

In "House of the Screaming Fiends," a young doctor and his wife inherit a decaying mansion haunted by the twisted legacy of a long-dead physician and his loyal caretaker, who continue their macabre experiments on the forgotten dead. As the new owners uncover the house’s terrible secrets, they must face the horrors they’ve awakened—before the fiends claim them too.

In a remote corner of Scotland, ancient feuds linger in the land itself—where a creek runs red with blood once a year, on the anniversary of a long-ago murder. The mystery of the crimson stream draws Jo, a curious traveler, into a tale where the past refuses to stay buried.

Jo, a desperate gambler, stumbles upon the talisman of Cesare Borgia—its power brings him unimaginable wealth, but at a cost he can’t escape. No matter how he tries, he can’t rid himself of the cursed object, and the shadow of Borgia’s influence grows darker with every passing night.