Scream #8

A young man, unnerved by the pale blue eye of an old man he lives with, becomes obsessed with the idea that the eye is watching him. As he meticulously plans and carries out the old man’s murder, he grows increasingly paranoid, convinced that the beating of the victim’s heart—still audible beneath the floorboards—will expose him, even as the police search the house.

In a chilling tale from the heart of Siberia’s darkest prison camp, a cruel commander known only as Dubchek recounts his reign of terror over the imprisoned. After years of dehumanizing his prisoners and treating them like animals, he is finally overthrown—forced to endure the same brutal fate he once inflicted. The story ends with him thrown into a pig pen, now the prey of starving inmates, as the tables turn in a brutal reversal of power.

In the rain-soaked graveyard of Savannah, Georgia, on Halloween night, the reanimated corpse of Elias Mund—once a quiet undertaker—rises from his crypt, driven by a twisted sense of justice to hunt monsters he believes still roam the earth. Though he once dismissed vampires and werewolves as mere superstition, his mind now fixates on eradicating evil, even as his actions blur the line between protector and predator. As he wanders the muddy cemetery, he encounters a group of children, and in a moment of terrifying confusion, his long-buried guilt resurfaces.

Jagen, a seasoned hunter, arrives on a distant planet after a series of teleportation jumps, evading pursuit by destroying his transmitter and altering his weapon. As he moves through a public communications plaza and into a hotel room, he is confronted by a man who claims to be a follower, only to reveal a deadly betrayal. The story builds tension as Jagen faces a mechanical entity that claims to be part of a larger operation, leaving him trapped in a body he can no longer control.