Forbidden Worlds #6

A young medical researcher named Mr. Terry ventures into Brazil's back country to investigate a baffling plague—hundreds have died of malaria, yet no bodies are ever found—only to discover that something far stranger than fever stalks the jungle. When he reaches a remote trading post run by Carlos, Terry encounters the mysterious Jumba, a supernatural force commanding the dead to do her bidding, and realizes the true horror awaiting him in the domain of the dead. As fever claims his body and Jumba's zombie servants close in, Terry must find a way to survive an enemy that defies the laws of science.

In 1541, Queen Catherine of England is imprisoned by King Henry VIII and condemned to death on false charges. When she attempts a desperate escape through Hampton Court Palace to plead her case directly to the king, her bid for mercy fails—and she meets her tragic end on the executioner's block. Ever since that fateful November night, witnesses claim to see her ghostly form fleeing down the palace gallery, still desperately seeking the salvation that was denied her in life.

In the shadowed halls of a nearly restored European castle, Bud brings Sally to celebrate their upcoming marriage and begin their honeymoon—only to find their idyllic retreat haunted by something far more unsettling than creaking floorboards. When Sally witnesses a head floating through the air, her terror turns the castle’s quiet romance into a chilling mystery neither can escape.

When composer Frederick James encounters Harlow Woods' haunting musical composition, he becomes obsessed—so much so that he'll stop at nothing to claim it as his own, even resorting to murder. But stealing genius comes with a supernatural price, as the spirit of the wronged musician reaches back from beyond the grave to ensure his masterpiece never reaches the world's ears. A tale of ambition, theft, and spectral vengeance that proves some melodies are too powerful—and too dangerous—for the living to control.

A desperate writer trades his soul to a mysterious stranger for a typewriter that promises to restore his flagging career—but discovers the machine has a sinister gift for turning his stories into horrifying reality. As Johnny Archer's tales begin materializing outside the pages with terrifying consequences, he realizes the price of his bargain may be far darker than he ever imagined. Written with genuine creeping dread, this 1952 tale explores what happens when a writer's words stop being fiction and become fate.

Archaeologist Bruce Chapman and his assistant Gail Nixon discover a 4,000-year-old Babylonian temple during an expedition in Mesopotamia, but their excitement turns to terror when Chapman uses an ancient betrothal ring from the ruins as a wedding band—only to have a monstrous beast matching descriptions of the devil-god Belial crash their ceremony and spirit Gail away. Racing back to the ruined temple to rescue her, Chapman must decipher the ring's inscription and call upon forces beyond the natural world to save his bride from becoming a sacrificial offering to an ancient evil.

In the remote Jiundu Swamp on the Rhodesian-Congo border, a witch-doctor presides over an ancient and forbidden ritual, administering a mystical drug to two chosen initiates. What unfolds during the ceremony's frenzied dance—whether genuine transformation or elaborate deception—remains a chilling mystery that even the witnesses struggle to comprehend.