Forbidden Worlds #31

In a remote European castle that now harbors exiled royalty, Prince Nilo, Sultan Abdullah, King Estaban, and Duke Gregor have formed a sinister circle devoted to inventing ever more thrilling—and depraved—diversions to escape their tedium. When a mysterious masked stranger arrives and requests membership in their group, he challenges them to provide an experience unlike any they've known, inviting them to dinner in the supposedly ruined old bastion. What unfolds is a supernatural reckoning as the stranger reveals his true nature and the circle faces a price far darker than they ever imagined.

When a Professor's experiments with a mysterious idol carved from otherworldly stone accidentally unleash the lost continent of Mu, Gordon finds himself and Joyce—the Professor's daughter—dragged into a realm of cosmic horror ruled by the ghastly god Ummu, whose insatiable hunger for human sacrifice consumes all who enter its domain. As Joyce falls under Ummu's sinister influence and the Professor's fate seems sealed, Gordon must find a way to resist the idol's hypnotic power and save the woman he loves from complete domination. Written by the creative team of Forbidden Worlds, this 1954 tale pits one man's determination against an ancient evil that feeds on despair itself.

When Danny boasts to Steve Williams and the gang that he's not afraid of anything, he decides to prove his courage by entering a haunted house—only to come face-to-face with the Dark Demon itself. What starts as a test of bravery becomes something far stranger when Danny and the supernatural creature find themselves in an unexpected kind of contest, with Danny's most prized possessions suddenly at stake.

Embittered sculptor Boone Forbes becomes obsessed with creating a statue so lifelike that it will silence his critics—leading him to sacrifice his own physical parts in pursuit of impossible perfection. As his fiancée Nora watches in horror, his obsession spirals into something far darker than mere artistic ambition, summoning forces he never imagined possible.