Forbidden Worlds #25

Ralph returns from a haunting European sojourn with a chilling tale: a Venetian music box purchased from an antique dealer has drawn him into an otherworldly web of supernatural terror. As Professor Forbes listens to his account, the music box's dark pull proves impossible to resist, calling Ralph back into the night toward a mystery that blurs the line between the living and the dead.

In the jungles of Brazil, J.V. Fletcher schemes to eliminate his partner Hallahan, hiring a local witch doctor to deliver the fatal blow and send proof—Hallahan’s severed head—back to him. When Fletcher returns to America, he begins to fear the worst: the head he ordered has come back to haunt him, relentless and vengeful.

When Hester Pratt falls fatally ill in 17th-century Vermont, her devoted Roger Burgess watches helplessly as pneumonia claims her life, leaving him shattered by grief. Unable to bear a world without her, Roger withdraws into lonely isolation, his heart buried with Hester long before his own end comes—a poignant tale of love that transcends the boundaries of life itself.

Marvin Blake, laboratory assistant to Professor J.Z. Clark, becomes obsessed with the professor's revolutionary resurrection serum after a deadly turn of events forces his hand—and he's determined to test Formula X-66 on a human subject, consequences be damned. What Marvin doesn't realize is that some secrets of life and death were meant to stay buried, and his triumph in the laboratory may be the worst mistake of his life.

Hans Krause, a former stormtrooper hungry for power after Germany's defeat, schemes to resurrect his fascist ambitions with his sweetheart Elsa—but an eerie stranger and strange occurrences begin to dog their plans. When Hans and his conspirators gather to commemorate their dark past at the site of a concentration camp, they're confronted by something far more sinister than the authorities. In "The Dead Remember," the ghosts of history itself demand a reckoning.