Spellbound #17

In "Vampires Also Die," a young vampire, consumed by jealousy of his brother’s strength, makes a dark bargain with a witch to end his sibling’s life. His triumph turns to horror when his parents weep, revealing that their other son was the only one who could sustain him through a rare blood disorder—his brother’s sacrifice was the quiet price of his survival. Overwhelmed by guilt, the vampire takes his own life in remorse.

In "The Third Arm!", Johnny recounts a nightmarish encounter with a hidden underground world where three-armed beings dwell, their strange rituals and unsettling promises driving him to flee in terror. As he shares his story with Mac, the tension mounts—until Mac slowly reveals a truth that turns Johnny’s worst fears into something far more personal.

In "Caught in the Graft," a corrupt city official named Sam, undone by his own crimes, finds himself trapped in a prison he once helped build—its morgue a grim extension of his ill-gotten power. Haunted by claustrophobia and desperate to escape, he slips into a coffin and vanishes into the labyrinthine depths of the city’s morgue system. When his henchman Maxie arrives to free him, he’s faced with a chilling reality: Sam could be in any one of thousands of ice boxes, buried beneath the very city Sam once controlled.

In "Stretching Things," a young man with brittle bone syndrome finds a terrifying new kind of strength when a doctor’s experimental treatment grants him elasticity—only to turn him into a killer desperate to keep his secret. As his body begins to twist and distort, he eliminates anyone who might expose him, leaving a trail of victims and a growing dread in his wake. When he seeks a cure from another scientist, the same fate awaits—until the police arrive to find only a strange, spreading puddle where he once stood.

A family curse binds the halls of an ancient Irish castle, where each year on the same night a demon rises to terrorize its inhabitants. The only way to break the curse lies in destroying the entire castle with dynamite—but no one dares to act.

In "The Dead Dance On Halloween," a desperate woman's obsession with a man promised to another leads her to a witch's cottage, where she trades her soul for a love potion. The potion twists her beloved into a monstrous shape, but when she refuses to pay the witch’s price, she learns too late that Halloween night brings more than magic—it brings a curse. Now doomed to dance among the dead, she must face the price of her desire in the dark.