Midnight #3

When Bruce Kendall emerges from the underground water tunnels where he works, he discovers the city above has been devastated by an atomic bomb—and its survivors are trapped in a strange state of suspended time, moving and speaking like automatons. Desperate to help them and find his wife Becky among the dazed crowds, Bruce attempts to reach her, only to discover she has no memory of him or their life together. As he struggles to break through her condition and lead the displaced survivors, the fragile equilibrium of this ravaged world begins to crumble around him.

In "The Haunted Hero," David, haunted by a nightmare of suffocation in an hourglass, seeks help from a psychiatrist who, under hypnosis, uncovers a buried past: David was a prisoner of war during World War II, forced into collaboration with his captors—leading to the deaths of fellow Americans, including those in a building shaped like an hourglass. When his boss sends him to inspect a grain elevator in Minnesota, the structure’s design triggers a terrifying recurrence of his trauma, and he finds himself trapped in a suffocating cascade of grain.

In "All This Is Mine!" from Midnight #3 (1957), John McLeod arrives in Scotland to claim his uncle’s estate, only to find the man dead and the manor gripped by the terror of a vengeful spirit known as The Red Laird. As shadows deepen and the past refuses to stay buried, John must confront the chilling truth behind the haunting—before the house claims him too.

Tom Lanfry is a struggling writer consumed by self-doubt, until a mysterious stranger promises him victory in a prestigious novel contest—for a price Tom agrees to without fully understanding the terms. Desperate to prove himself to his skeptical fiancée Peg, Tom throws himself into writing with an almost supernatural compulsion, working obsessively day and night as the weeks blur together. As his manuscript nears completion, Tom finds himself caught in a bargain whose true cost remains terrifyingly unclear.