Dark Mysteries #19

Two coeds caught sneaking back to campus late at night spot their professor prowling the grounds—and Marie, convinced she can manipulate the odd man, arranges a private study session at his remote hilltop house. What starts as a calculated seduction spirals into genuine terror when Marie discovers the gruesome truth about her professor's scholarly obsessions lurking in the shadows of his home.

When a jealous man named Aaron murders his rival Karl and the woman he loved, Lily, their bodies are buried in an unmarked grave—but hatred and vengeance prove stronger than death itself. Years later, a monstrous child born from their corruption rises as a zombie to carry out the twisted revenge his dead parents have nursed in their tomb. Now Aaron has returned to the village he fled, unknowingly walking straight into the arms of his own dark creation.

A service station attendant's restless night takes a sinister turn when he picks up a peculiar old woman stranded on a snowy road—the same road where a murder has just been committed. As she spins tales of vampirism and reveals herself to be the woman connected to the crime, he finds his suspicions and unease growing into something far more primal. Trapped alone with her in the bitter cold, he must confront what she truly is before the night claims another victim.

An eighty-five-year-old millionaire, Rudolf Gaunt, wages a decade-long battle against Death itself, refusing to succumb despite mounting heart attacks that grow more severe with each passing year. When a mysterious serum surfaces—one powerful enough to save his life but reserved for a dying world leader—Gaunt will stop at nothing to claim it, even as the Grim Reaper draws ever closer. His desperate gamble for immortality pushes him to the darkest choice imaginable, with consequences that challenge everything he thought he understood about life and death.