Baffling Mysteries #9

Nissa Marlo, owner of a bird shop, has poured months of work into a cross-breeding experiment—combining a South American vampire bat with a vulture to create a creature she calls the Vulbat. When her fiancé Perry Jackson discovers her creation and urges her to destroy it, a tragic accident unleashes consequences far darker than either of them imagined. As Nissa grapples with a horrifying transformation tied to the creature's blood, she must hide her new nature from those closest to her while a chain of macabre events spirals beyond her control.

Mary Keller awakens to a terrifying visitor who warns her that a monster holds her father captive in a sealed section of a Pennsylvania coal mine—a disaster site from twenty years prior where bodies were never recovered. Armed with a mysterious map and accompanied by a man named Kip, Mary descends into the darkness of Mine Number 4 to confront an ancient, superhuman creature born from her father's own hands, which has enslaved the miners as undead servants. What waits in the depths below will test whether fire and desperation can overcome a prehistoric evil that feeds on fear and commands an army of the damned.

A failed picador consumed by bitterness and the scorn of Seville's matador elite finds unexpected opportunity when a mysterious witch offers him a chance at revenge—but Juan Lorca's pride and hunger for acclaim may exact a price far darker than he bargained for. When a supernatural force begins to haunt the bullring itself, the line between Juan's obsession and the witch's own sinister ambitions blurs into a tale of curses, spirits, and the terrible cost of vanity that echoes through Spain's bloodiest arenas.

A young woman searches Hawaii for her missing brother John, only to discover he and his associate Professor Darnad have created something horrifying on the remote island of Lanai—a pulsating, flesh-hungry mass of protoplasmic life that has already claimed its makers. As this crawling monstrosity begins to multiply and hunt, Pete Colby and Miss Farrow must race to find a way to stop it before the creature consumes everything in its path.