Ghost Comics #3

In "Haunted Hand of X," convict Red Harrison escapes prison only to be guided by the ghost of a murdered policeman toward Tim, the man's son on the cusp of a criminal path. As Red intervenes to protect Tim from a gang of mobsters, the line between justice and redemption blurs in a story that lingers long after the final page.

Red Harrison has just two months left on his twenty-year prison sentence when a ghostly message bearing a dead cop's name appears on the prison floor—Cassidy, the man whose death sent him away. As a phantom Cassidy urges him to escape and help his troubled nephew Tim, Red finds himself caught between the freedom he nearly earned and a debt he can't ignore. When Tim falls into a dangerous con at a gambling hall, Red must decide how far he'll go to save him.

In the dusty streets of Bagdad, Professor Broussard stumbles upon a carpet that seems to pull him into a fevered dream—his own face woven into its threads, and a violent, gilded past unfolding before him. As the line between memory and madness blurs, he’s drawn into a nightmare of greed and blood, where every step feels like a trap set by his own shadow.

A mysterious stranger named Azrael seeks to retrieve an antique pair of dark-lensed spectacles from detective Murdoch, but before handing them over, Murdoch shares a series of unsettling reports: each person who's worn the glasses has witnessed disturbing visions—a murder, a bus accident, a circus fire—events that either came to pass or were narrowly averted. As Murdoch presses Azrael for answers about the glasses and their strange power, the tension mounts toward a revelation that may explain who—or what—Azrael truly is.