Forbidden Worlds #16

A young boy named Bobby brings home a mysterious wooden doll from an abandoned house once belonged to the sinister Eben Crutch, intending it as a gift for his sister Janie—but the doll awakens with dark magic and sinister intent. As strange deaths begin plaguing the town, Bobby's parents Frank and Ellen realize the supernatural truth: the doll may be the key to something far more terrifying rising from beyond the grave. With Eben's vengeance spreading, they must race against time to uncover the dark secret that binds the doll to the dead sorcerer.

When Ted and Abby witness a horrific car accident on a moonlit road, they glimpse something far worse emerging from the wreckage—a severed head that's claimed a body and is hunting for the missing limbs it needs to become whole again. As they uncover a centuries-old record of a executed ghoul whose head was buried in a nearby cemetery, Ted and Abby realize the ancient evil has been unleashed, and a restless phantom may be the only force that can help them stop it.

When an archeological expedition in India unearths a statue of Mahrana, the Snake Goddess, its leader Mr. Barnes refuses to heed warnings that the artifact contains a supernatural life force—a decision that costs him his life and sets a deadly curse in motion. Now back home, Mr. Barnes' daughter Pat must track down the shape-shifting goddess herself before more innocents fall to her vengeance, armed only with a magic amulet and the conviction that no one will believe her story.

In this tale from Indian legend, the province of Balaralphur suffers terribly from a fearsome wolf pack, yet its ruler refuses to help his desperate subjects—until a suspicious native discovers a telling wound that raises an impossible question about the Rajah's true nature. When the villagers set a trap to uncover the truth, they stumble upon a dark secret that seals their fate.

A climber named Mr. Dixon arrives in the Austrian Tyrols determined to hunt the legendary white boar that haunts the Mountain of Doom—a peak where hunters vanish without trace. Offered shelter by Herr Muller's niece Trina, Dixon pursues the creature into the night and discovers a horrifying secret that explains the mountain's deadly reputation. Written and illustrated with the pulp intensity that defined 1950s horror comics, "Mountain of Doom" delivers a tale where the hunter becomes hunted by something far more sinister than any ordinary beast.