Baffling Mysteries #8

In a secluded cottage deep in the Australian bush country, a husband grows uneasy as he watches his young wife tend to her collection of lifelike male dolls—especially when one of them speaks to him in the dead of night. Lucretia, with her quiet grace and unsettling knowledge, seems to know more about the old ways than she should, and the line between craft and curse begins to blur.

When a group of professional hunters in northern India steal the ruby eyes of Ra-La, the goddess of destruction, they believe they’ve outsmarted fate—until the black panther they pursued begins hunting them across continents. Now in London, the killers must outrun a vengeance that follows not just their trail, but their conscience.

In the shadowed streets of 1952 Calcutta, a desperate thief steals a mysterious drum from a murdered shopkeeper, unwittingly summoning Airi—a djinn bound to its rhythm. With three wishes at his disposal, he dares to demand freedom from the law, only to find his final wish leads him far beyond the world he knew.

A construction magnate and his son journey to the volcanic island of Yamaputra seeking valuable lava deposits, but they awaken something far older—fiery, sentient creatures who guard the mountain as sacred. When Scott Randolph dismisses warnings from the island's inhabitants and pushes forward with mining operations, the lava men and their queen Tamina launch a devastating attack, forcing the crew to discover an unexpected weakness and fight for survival against creatures of pure molten fury.