Eerie Archives #1

In "Image of Bluebeard!", Monica’s quiet marriage to Brian slowly unravels as her isolation deepens and her suspicions grow—what if the man she loves is not who he seems, but the monstrous figure from the tale he once read aloud? The closer she looks, the more the shadows in their home begin to whisper secrets best left buried.

In "Death Plane," a ghostly aircraft stalks the skies over World War I, felling both German and American planes without warning. When a lone pilot is sent to intercept it, he gets more than he bargained for—locking eyes with the creature behind the controls, a sight that leaves him haunted long after the mission ends.

In the isolated moors of northern England, a dying scientist named Dr. Sebastian makes a desperate plea to his former pupil, surgeon Dr. King, to preserve his mind by transferring it into a body stitched from two corpses. The procedure succeeds—but the revived Sebastian is no longer the man King knew, his intellect twisted by rage and ambition. As the reanimated creature stalks through terrified villages, driven by a hunger for control, a storm gathers above, drawn to the unnatural spark in his metallic neck. The tale ends not with salvation, but with silence—only ashes remain where a man once stood.

In "Hatchet Man," Harvey Whittaker sees a chance to eliminate his wife by mimicking the legend of a notorious hatchet murderer—only he hasn’t counted on the past being more alive than he thought. As he steps into the shadow of a twisted tale, the line between imitation and obsession begins to blur.

In "Shrieking Man!", a new young doctor begins his tenure at a secluded asylum under the watchful eye of a renowned psychiatrist. His first encounter is with a tormented patient, locked in a padded cell and screaming endlessly, his anguish seemingly beyond cure.

In "Island at World's End!", a lone survivor washed ashore recounts a harrowing tale to a whaling crew: a remote island where the ancient, forgotten entity Shoggath once ruled, and where a terrible past still lingers. Though Shoggath fled the island long ago, his shadow has not faded—and the horrors he left behind may not be done with the world.