Chamber of Chills Magazine #16

In "The Wax Man," a desperate thief, running from justice, stumbles upon a mysterious elixir rumored to grant immortality—stretching life beyond five hundred years. What begins as a chance escape quickly spirals into something far more unsettling, as the line between survival and transformation begins to blur.

In "The Creeping Death," archaeologist Ureo and his crew uncover a millennia-old key within the ruins of the lost city of Ur, only to unleash a dormant guardian—a monstrous, octopus-like entity—when they attempt to study it in America. The story builds a slow, chilling dread as the creature’s awakening echoes through the halls of a distant lab, far from the desert sands where it was first sealed.