Forbidden Worlds #12

When an antique chest inscribed with a thousand-year-old curse arrives in America, archeologist Dave Sloane and his fiancée Arda Morrow find themselves caught between a deadly supernatural force and those who would harness it for world domination. As bodies pile up and the mysterious guardian Kasmar reveals the chest's terrifying history, Dave races against time to prevent the genie Abhen the Slayer from regaining enough strength to break free and destroy mankind.

In the isolated Smokey Mountains, Mrs. Black—a mysterious half-human, half-spider hybrid—lives in solitude, her nights spent hunting. But when one of her victims proves to be a dangerous half-human, half-wasp hybrid named Mr. Vespid, her quiet reign of terror takes a deadly turn.

When industrial engineer Jim Harris and his secretary Trudy Jones seek shelter at an isolated house after car trouble, their host Braxton regales them with local legend: the Tomb of the Unseen, a hidden grave guarded by walking corpses and a faceless phantom. That night, Jim and Trudy witness the horrors firsthand—the undead procession, the terrible specter itself—and encounter the ghost of an old vicar who reveals he's been cursed to wander the churchyard until he finds the tomb's location and destroys the evil that dwells within it.

A honeymoon couple's New England getaway turns sinister when a mysterious cat leads them to a fire-blackened pillar—and unleashes the vengeful spirit of Hester Mather, a woman burned as a witch three centuries ago. Now the malevolent ghost demands a victim to secure her immortality for another hundred years, and Curt must race against nightfall to save Ellen from a fate of flames. With supernatural forces at his back and only the element of water as his weapon, he'll need more than courage to stop a curse that's haunted these woods for three hundred years.