Forbidden Worlds #14

When an atomic bomb blast awakens a prehistoric egg buried for 180 million years, Professor Rigby and his daughter Jill discover the creature inside is far more than just a dinosaur—it's a half-human, half-reptile hybrid with a terrifying connection to the young woman who has been caring for it. As the military struggles to contain the invincible monster, Jill finds herself caught between the creature's hypnotic pull and the horror of what it's becoming.

Bart Kendall's time machine promises the ultimate adventure—a journey back to 1652—but Father Time himself appears with a grim warning that meddling with history carries catastrophic consequences. When Bart ignores the caution and arrives in Colonial America, his modern appearance and speech spark panic; mistaken for a wizard, he's forced to fight his way free with a hand grenade, accidentally killing a man whose descendant will determine the fate of his entire world. Racing back to 1952, Bart discovers the city has vanished and his fiancée Lonnie never existed—leaving him with an agonizing choice about what he's willing to sacrifice to undo the damage he's caused.

Professor Michael Halvorsen harbors a burning grudge against millionaire industrialist Robert Blenfort, who profited from his scientific discoveries without sharing the promised rewards. In a letter that arrives at Blenfort's office, Halvorsen describes his months-long scheme to extract supernatural revenge—involving ancient alchemy, forbidden texts, and a summoned demon—but the correspondence cuts off abruptly, leaving Blenfort to puzzle over an impossible question. As he dismisses the tale as absurd nonsense, the answer arrives with terrifying finality.

When con man Victor Hall plans to marry Judy Langley for her money, her loyal friend Pete Gordon confronts him and threatens to expose the truth—only to die in a mysterious plane crash that very afternoon. As Victor and Judy grieve, Pete's vengeful ghost begins to haunt them, writing accusations in the sky and driving them back from their attempts to flee, all while Victor realizes the phantom wants him dead. In "Spectre of the Skies!" from *Forbidden Worlds* #14, a desperate man must face an enemy he cannot fight as Pete's supernatural wrath closes in during a death-defying aerial stunt.

A jilted man on a Haitian coffee plantation seeks dark magic to win back Alice from her fiancé Barry Brooks, striking a bargain with the voodoo spirit Vaxama that comes with a terrible price. When the supernatural debt comes due at midnight in the cemetery, the scheme spirals into a horrifying reckoning that no one anticipated. This tale of forbidden desires and supernatural consequences asks what happens when you're willing to pay anything—only to discover the cost is far higher than you imagined.