Journey into Fear #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis anthology issue contains four tales of supernatural terror. "Broken Mirror" follows a woman undergoing surgery who fears her face has been permanently disfigured, only to discover the doctor has merely adjusted her dressings. "The Wandering Corpse" concerns the mysterious disappearance of a wealthy eccentric named Mr. Chumly from a hospital morgue, baffling his relatives who anticipated his inheritance. "Gypsy's Curse" depicts a man named Greg Peters under a gypsy's spell that threatens him with endless misery unless he marries, leading him to pursue a woman named Hope Caldwell. Additional stories round out the issue with further explorations of fear and the supernatural.
In the quiet isolation of a remote hospital, ballerina Glenda West undergoes a series of mysterious surgeries under the care of the reclusive Dr. Hill, a renowned plastic surgeon whose fascination with her beauty grows into something far more obsessive. As days pass in eerie stillness, Glenda begins to fall in love with her doctor, unaware that his intentions are far from healing. When the moment comes to remove her bandages, a hidden diary reveals a truth that shatters the fragile illusion.
In the shadowed streets of a quiet town, the reclusive Jonas Palmer prowls each night, driven by a secret he guards with his life. Once a shopkeeper, he now searches for a lost gem hidden in a chest he sold—its whereabouts unknown, its value beyond measure. As others whisper he’s mad, only his cat seems to know the truth of his mission.
In the eerie tale "The Wandering Corpse," the body of eccentric millionaire Webster Chumly vanishes from a hospital morgue, only to turn up in increasingly unlikely places—from a taxi in London to a train bound for Hopeville, a rural road, and finally a ship sailing to Cuba. As his relatives scramble to claim his fortune, a young woman who missed her train ends up aboard the same vessel, uncovering a sinister plot tied to Chumly’s hidden wealth and a secret tattoo on his back. The story unfolds with a chilling sense of mystery, as the corpse’s strange journey reveals who among the heirs was truly willing to go to any lengths for inheritance.
In a remote gypsy camp, film star Greg Peters becomes entangled with Lucia, a passionate Romany woman whose intense feelings and cryptic warnings unsettle him. After a tense confrontation and a mysterious curse, Greg returns to Hollywood, only to face a new crisis when a scandalous newspaper headline claims he’s engaged to another woman—prompting a desperate need to prove his love to the nurse who saved him.
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