Beware! Terror Tales #8

In "The Man Who Could Fly!" from Beware! Terror Tales #8 (1953), young fisherman Thor Taver stumbles into a nightmare when he confronts a bird man who terrorizes his village with a pack of vicious eagles. After being bitten, Taver begins to transform—his body shifting toward something feral and feathered—and must face his monstrous foe in a deadly aerial battle above the sea.

In 1953's "Prophecy of Doom!" a man named Tonas discovers a mysterious ouija board that accurately predicts the future—first a horse race, then stock market movements—and becomes obsessed with using it to make his fortune. When the board reveals a chilling prophecy about his own fate, Tonas is consumed by dread as he races against time to escape what seems inevitable. This haunting tale explores the dangerous price of knowing tomorrow.

In "Tomorrow Is Today," junk dealer Tonas stumbles upon a mysterious Ouija board that spells out his death for the next day. As he scrambles to avoid every possible threat, the line between fear and fate begins to blur—until he realizes the board might not be predicting his end, but shaping it.

In ancient Babylonia, when someone was believed possessed by an evil spirit, the high priests would perform elaborate rituals to drive out the demon—first attempting to transfer it into an animal through sacred incantations, and if that failed, constructing a ceremonial boat bearing an image of the demon to sail it away while reciting secret formulas. The people of this ancient civilization lived in constant fear of supernatural possession, relying on their priests' mystical practices to protect them from forces they couldn't understand or control.

When Bill Farrell takes over as switchman at Mesa Verde tunnel in the Dakota badlands, his predecessor Newt warns him of a vengeful spirit—the ghost of Whip Hoyas, a mule driver said to haunt the rails with a spectral bullwhip, seeking revenge against the railroad that drove him from the land. That night, when an unearthly coyote's cry splits the prairie silence, Farrell comes face-to-face with the apparition, and his fight to protect the trains from the ghost's destructive power becomes a desperate battle for survival in the tunnel's dark depths.