Haunted Thrills #16

When Jack Burch's fiancée Liza breaks things off with her jilted suitor Gregor, the heartbroken man hurls himself from a hotel window—but his death is only the beginning. As Liza falls mysteriously ill, a refugee doctor arrives with an extraordinary diagnosis: Gregor has returned as a vampire, determined to claim her soul for revenge. Now Jack must use occult knowledge and quick thinking to save the woman he loves from a supernatural force that refuses to stay buried.

In "Web of the Widow," the fate of Egyptologist Matt Taylor hangs in the balance after a bite from a temple spider leaves him near death. When a mysterious woman named Suthina appears out of nowhere to heal him, hope rises—until Matt begins to suspect her strange fascination with spiders may be far more sinister than he imagined. With Molly Taylor, Mr. Cantwell, and Christopher Fly caught in the growing dread, the line between savior and predator begins to blur.

Martin Buckson has built a lucrative career as a big-game hunter and explorer—problem is, every thrilling tale he tells at packed lecture halls is pure fiction, and he's never set foot in Africa. When he romances Nella and impulsively promises to take her on an actual safari, Buckson finds himself forced to finally walk the walk in the African jungle, where neither his false bravado nor his complete inexperience will protect him from the very real dangers he's spent years lying about.

A farm laborer's jealous rage ignites when he discovers his sweetheart has abandoned him for a London artist—and as passion turns to murder in the English countryside, Tom Court believes he's pulled off the perfect crime. But the marshes and streams hold their own justice, and when he returns to the scene days later, he finds that some debts cannot be escaped so easily. A chilling 1954 tale where revenge wears feathers and watches with ancient, knowing eyes.