Haunted Thrills #17

When Jim Taunton and his mistress Amy Gardner scheme to drive his wife Alice to despair without resorting to actual murder, they devise a cunning plan involving a distorting mirror from the carnival where Amy works and a fabricated newspaper story about a rare skin disease. As Alice stares at her grotesquely warped reflection, believing herself afflicted and disfigured beyond hope, the psychological torment spirals toward tragedy. What begins as a calculated plot to free Jim for his new love takes a dark and unexpected turn when fate intervenes in the most ironic of ways.

In "Devil's Ballet," the haunted grace of the stage becomes a deadly stage for vengeance as dancer Vanya faces the ghost of her murdered lover, Paul. Trapped in a chilling dance of retribution, she must confront the consequences of her crime in a performance that blurs the line between life and nightmare.

In "Die Screaming," Sam Dexter finds himself trapped in a chilling psychological spiral when Dr. Fiske commits him to an asylum, claiming Sam’s belief that he sees Napoleon in his mirror is proof of madness—though Dr. Fiske himself insists he is Napoleon, and the line between truth and delusion begins to blur.

In "Monster in the Mist," Doctor Christopher Fenn and his companion Wendy confront a terrifying return of the ancient Dorset monster, a force summoned long ago by the Druids to resist Roman conquest. Armed with the cryptic "Devil's Catalogue," they summon the ghosts of Roman soldiers in a desperate bid to hold back the creature from the mist.