Ghostly Tales #57

A corrupt burgomeister in 1700s Germany grows fat on taxes from his suffering villagers while building a tower in the Rhine River to collect tolls—until the oppressed people arrange a twisted invitation to his grand party. When his guests arrive bearing a bitter surprise, the burgomeister discovers that cruelty to the desperate carries consequences far darker than he ever imagined.

Eric Grey returns to the computer room where he worked with his fiancée Pat, only to be haunted by memories of the car accident that took her life—and left him with shocking white hair. When a machine malfunction produces an impossible printout, Eric faces a message that seems to come from beyond, forcing him to confront what he's lost and what might have been.

Dr. M.T. Graves takes on a baffling case when a desperate client brings word of an impossible garden—one that blooms in the depths of winter, sealed off by an invisible barrier that no scientist can breach. The garden belonged to the late Mrs. White, who spent her final days longing to tend it once more, and now something keeps drawing everyone away from its threshold. With insight into matters of the supernatural, Dr. Graves devises a plan that science alone could never achieve.

Two soldiers, Mel Steiner and Fred Kane, forge an unbreakable bond during training and deployment to the Pacific—until war tears them apart. When Fred makes a promise to always be there for his frightened friend, that vow becomes something neither death nor distance can break. As the spirits of war settle over the battlefield, an extraordinary obligation transcends the line between the living and the dead.