Lost Marvels #1

In "At the Stroke of Midnight!", a timid man is pushed by his domineering wife into murdering his reclusive uncle to claim the family mansion perched on a lonely hill. When their crime leads them through a hidden passage into a blood-soaked past, they find themselves trapped in 18th-century France—wrongfully accused of nobility and facing the guillotine as the revolution's blade falls at midnight.

In "From Beyond the Brink!", a writer delves into the chilling case of Hayden Hathaway, a man consumed by a relentless need to expose fake psychics—only to discover the one medium who truly sees beyond the veil is the one he’s been chasing all along. As the line between the living and the dead begins to blur, the truth of Hathaway’s obsession unravels in ways no skeptic could have foreseen.

In "A Time to Die!", a reclusive scientist’s desperate quest for immortality leads him to harvest secrets from a ancient redwood, only to be undone by his silent assistant. When the assistant takes the elixir meant for his master, he is transformed into a living tree—bound to the earth, forever changed, and cursed with a new, terrible existence.

In "Witch Hunt!", a desperate Hollywood producer travels to a remote European village in search of real witches to revive his failing horror series. There, he stumbles upon a group of elderly women confronting a young girl, only to realize too late that the true danger lies not with the girl—but with the men who control the women’s power.

In "Look Out, Wyatt... Automation's Gonna Get Your Job!", a foreman named Jo leads a crew of miners deep underground, haunted by the fear that company-installed automatons will render them obsolete. When a repair robot is sent down to assist, Jo’s paranoia turns to action—until his decision to destroy it traps him and his team in a collapsing shaft, leaving them stranded with no way out.

In the prehistoric past, a mutant caveman flees his tribe through dark tunnels, finding refuge behind a roaring waterfall—where he feeds on sound itself. Eons later, when the waterfall dries, he erupts into the modern world, a pulsating mass hiding in an abandoned house, starving for noise. When a hippie couple stumbles upon his refuge, he begins to pursue them, his survival hanging on the next sound he can consume. Just as he seems doomed to collapse, the girl opens her mouth.

In "The Moving Finger Writhes...!", a desperate man stumbles upon a strange book that eerily predicts his fate—leading him to sudden wealth through horse race bets. But when the book’s future pages go blank at a construction site, his luck turns deadly in an instant. Now, the book has passed to a new reader, its next chapter still unwritten.

In "Midnight in the Wax Museum!", a curious student reporter stumbles upon a mysterious wax museum appearing out of nowhere across the street. As he ventures inside, he discovers the figures are not what they seem—aliens in disguise, hiding in plain sight. When he tries to escape and calls for help, the police arrive just in time to witness the museum transform into a spaceship and vanish into the night.

In "Evil Is a Baaaaad Scene!!," a desperate magician’s dark ritual goes horribly wrong when a curious cat disrupts the spell, unleashing a demon upon the stage and the stunned crowd. The story’s eerie tension builds as chaos unfolds in the flickering light of a forgotten theater, where magic and mischief collide in unexpected ways.

In "One Little Indian!", a guilt-ridden businessman haunted by his own deceit finds himself trapped in a spiral of paranoia after a gypsy’s cryptic warning: he will die in the presence of an Indian. As his fear distorts reality—every shadow, every stranger, every unfamiliar face a potential threat—he begins to unravel, convinced the world is conspiring against him. When the final, chilling moment arrives, it’s not the myth he feared, but a truth far more literal—and deadly.

In "To Sneak... Perchance to Scream!", a haunted house with a mind of its own watches as two Soviet spies take refuge within its walls, using its hidden spaces to construct a device meant to destroy a nearby plutonium plant. As the structure stirs to life, summoning storm and fury, the spies find themselves trapped not just by the building’s shifting halls, but by forces far beyond their control.

In "The Demon That Devoured Hollywood!" from Lost Marvels #1 (2025), a struggling actor named Jason Roland makes a desperate pact with a mysterious, dwarfish agent who promises fame in exchange for a favor. With a twist of sinister glamour, the agent transforms Jason into a star—literally—by applying monster makeup that turns him into a sensation. But when Jason tries to walk away from the deal, the transformation becomes permanent, trapping him in a nightmare of his own making.

In "Flight into Fear!", a young man named Jo wakes up on a stone gargoyle in a city park, only to be whisked away to a medieval realm where he’s suddenly a giant—free of his physical limitations. There, he joins the fight against the demonic Xzar, wielding an enchanted sword to protect the tiny people who call the realm home. When the battle ends and a gargoyle returns him to the real world, Jo awakens with a startling truth: the dream was real, and he can finally walk.

In "Time Out!", a couple on the brink of separation takes a desperate drive through a storm to reach the dying uncle of the wife, hoping to claim his inheritance. Forced to seek shelter in a decaying, isolated house, they spend a night trapped inside—only to emerge the next morning to discover seven years have passed. As the weight of time and their renewed connection settle in, the woman can't shake the feeling that her uncle’s occult experiments were behind the impossible passage of time, and that the house itself may have been a test of their love.

In "The Ghost-Beast!" from Lost Marvels #1, Beowulf and his men arrive to save a kingdom from a shadowy demon whose gaze drives men to madness. After the beast is defeated, Beowulf’s true ambition surfaces—he seeks to claim the throne. When the ghost of the Beast-God returns, the princess devises a cunning trap using a poison ring, leading to Beowulf’s death and his eternal transformation into a wandering spirit.

In "Contact!" from *Lost Marvels #1*, a lone scientist at a seaside lab sends a signal to an alien race, only to be crushed when their colossal forms arrive—unaware they’ve already made contact. The story unfolds in just two pages, blending quiet dread with a sudden, crushing twist.

In "The Scream from Beyond!", a man obsessed with capturing the raw chaos of real-life disasters begins to question his recordings when a haunting scream surfaces in the background—something he doesn’t remember capturing. As he ventures deeper into his dangerous experiments, his obsession takes a terrifying turn when his latest act of sabotage traps him on the very tracks he’s rigged to destroy. The story, written by an unnamed author and illustrated by an unnamed artist, unfolds with a chilling sense of inevitability, blurring the line between recorder and recorded.

In "The Scream of Things," a professor investigating the Wollaston Curse arrives in a quiet British town, drawn to the ruins of a manor steeped in bloodline vengeance. Accompanied by a woman he meets there, he soon discovers that the curse’s power is as real as it is ancient—anyone with hate in their heart who comes too close to the manor becomes consumed by it, their fate woven into the very stones of the past.

In "Of Swords and Sorcery!", Vandal the barbarian, Pip the elf, and Trolkin the cursed dwarf—whose lizard-like form hides a dangerous secret—race to stop the demonic wizard Arak, whose petrifying gaze turns friend and foe alike to stone. When Arak’s power proves too great, it’s Trolkin’s hidden curse that becomes the key to turning the tide in a desperate, deadly reversal.

In "Sanctuary!", a storm-wracked king and a resurrected druid collide in a tomb beneath the ruins of Cybernia. When the conqueror Hamand claims the crown of the dead, he unwittingly awakens a spirit who will use cunning and disguise to turn his victory into a prison.