Eerie #16

In "The Thing from the Sea," a chilling tale from Eerie #16 (1954), a murder at sea sets a haunting course when the drowned victim, Eddie Murray, begins his slow, silent journey back to shore. As the killer, Johnny Smithers, tries to win the affection of Eddie’s lover, the dead man rises from the deep, drawn by a terrible purpose. The story unfolds with a quiet dread, where the ocean’s depths hold a secret that will not stay buried.

In "The Stranger in Studio X," a gaunt man in dark glasses appears unannounced at a radio station, claiming foreknowledge of impending tragedies. When he warns DJ Don Creighton that his home has burned down and his family is in grave danger, Don’s desperate flight from the studio ends in a fatal accident—his death, announced by the stranger, now a grim certainty.

A man tormented by haunting nightmares of a watery grave decides to flee his coastal city with his fiancée, desperate to escape the visions that feel disturbingly real. When a ghostly figure from his past catches up with him, he discovers that some debts cannot be outrun—and that the price of certain decisions follows you even in waking life. Published in 1954, this tale of supernatural reckoning combines psychological dread with the kind of bargain no mortal should ever strike.