Hort der Angst #1

In the shadowed heart of colonial Africa, a brutal act of greed casts a long curse: George Harcourt murders the medicine man M'Basi and his daughter Naba to seize their ivory cache. Twenty-five years later, the spirits of M'Basi and Naba return as vengeful phantoms, their wrath rising from the earth to confront George’s son, Peter, in a haunting reckoning steeped in ancestral fury and the weight of stolen lives.

When James Crawford kills George Dana to win Barbara Johnson’s affection, his cruel act unleashes a grotesque transformation—turning him into a small green monster destined for a carnival sideshow. As his twisted fate unfolds, the line between predator and spectacle blurs in this chilling tale from *Hort der Angst #1*.

In a haunting tale from *Hort der Angst #1*, George, a ballet dancer, abandons his partner Cara to pursue a wealthy socialite, Gloria—only to be haunted by Cara’s ghost years later. At a masked ball, the spectral Cara reappears, drawing George into a deadly dance that leads toward a cliff’s edge, where past sins and forbidden longing collide.

Rigger Hale and Charlie Blake, two deserting sailors, row toward a forsaken spit of land where skeletal horrors roam. As they seek refuge, they fall prey to the master of these undead creatures, who intends to turn them into eternal servants of his grim army.