Doomed #1

Jules has always felt apart from the others, even as a child—quiet, watchful, with a stillness that unsettles those around him. Now, as he grows older, the things he’s seen and the things he can’t explain begin to surface in ways that blur the line between memory and something far older, far darker.

In "Cuts," screenwriter Milo Johnson begins to suspect a voodoo curse after strange, unexplained pains afflict him—only to discover the curse’s true horror lies in its shared burden, binding him to the one who inflicted it in ways neither could have foreseen.

In "Blood Rape of the Lust Ghouls," a film critic obsessed with sleazy horror movies stumbles upon a hidden portal to a twisted parallel dimension—where the line between fiction and violence blurs, and his darkest fantasies might just become murder.

In "The Final Performance," a weary author checks into a secluded motel, drawn more to the quiet charm of a young woman working there than to the enigmatic proprietor. As the man delays learning the truth behind the owner’s past, the motel’s stillness begins to shift—until the proprietor, sensing the distraction, finally reveals what he once was.