Baffling Mysteries #16

In "Doom Comes in Emerald Green," Professor Montross attempts to dazzle an audience with a mysterious slide show, using a cursed emerald to project scenes from history—until the stones begin to reveal more than just the past. What starts as a display of arcane spectacle quickly turns perilous when the projector’s stolen magic exposes a long-buried crime, right in front of a room full of police.

In the eerie silence of the English Channel, a lighthouse stands as a lonely sentinel—until a group of looters, driven by greed, extinguish its flame to plunder a passing ship. But when one of them is struck by lightning and burns like a torch, the sudden blaze becomes a grim warning no one expected.

In "The Witch's Vengeful Return," the centuries-old spirit of witch Hepzibah stirs within her living descendant, Nora, unleashing a deadly quest for retribution against the bloodlines responsible for her execution. As Nora targets each descendant of her persecutors, her husband faces an impossible choice—saving her life or ending the rampage by burning down the house where she still stands.

In a chilling tale from *Baffling Mysteries #26*, a desperate man flees into the twisted world of a traveling sideshow’s "Chamber of Horrors," only to vanish—leaving behind a trail of dread in a deserted field on the outskirts of London. With eerie precision and haunting lettering by Leroy, the story unfolds like a whispered warning from beyond the veil.

In "Strands of the Faceless Horror," Harold Carpenter’s curiosity leads him to a cursed rug in India, where a genie’s deadly favor soon turns deadly. As the rug’s threads begin to weave more than just patterns, Carpenter finds himself trapped within its fabric—caught in a nightmare he never saw coming.

Zelma's marriage to the aging stoneworker Enric grows tense when she discovers he's fashioned a statue bearing half her face—a revelation that awakens something dark within her. When a mysterious nobleman named Count Onslow arrives with a sinister proposition tied to the statue's origins in their shared homeland of Lucarnia, Zelma finds herself caught between her newfound vampire nature and a curse she cannot control.