Haunted Horror #33

In "Skeleton's Gibbet," gambler Keith Lester gambles with fate—and loses—when he commits murder to settle his debts. Inherited family estate or not, his crimes catch up to him in the most literal way: a tribunal of his dead ancestors drags him before the gallows.

In the grimy heart of the slums, two desperate robbers break into a boarded-up house, expecting an easy score—only to find themselves trapped in a nightmare. The woman who answers the door is far from what she seems, and the walls of her home hide far more than dust and decay.

In the frostbitten peaks of the Bavarian Alps, American tourist Johnson ignores a guide’s chilling warning about the Northern slope—where the vengeful ghost of a father who lost his son to a reckless skier still hunts. What begins as a reckless descent turns into a terrifying race against a skeletal rival, each turn a step closer to death.

In "The Creeping Hand," Greer Fallon trades his soul for fame and fortune, receiving a mysterious severed hand that obeys his every command. At first, it paints masterpieces that make him rich and celebrated, but as his demands grow darker, the hand begins to act on its own—unbidden, unstoppable. Written by an unnamed scribe and illustrated by an unnamed artist, this chilling seven-page tale explores the price of ambition when the hand you command starts to decide what’s worth killing.

In "Happily Dead," a man wakes up to find himself officially declared dead—much to his own astonishment—and soon finds his new afterlife complicated by a job loss and a mysterious woman who shares his condition. Written by an unnamed author and illustrated by an unnamed artist, this six-page tale blends dark humor and quiet melancholy as it follows two souls navigating the strange rules of being dead.