Spellbound #35

In "I Fought the Molten Man-Thing!", a haunted airline pilot seeking peace on vacation stumbles upon a volcanic eruption and a monstrous, lava-encrusted being rising from the earth. With quick thinking and a makeshift wind tunnel, he fights to hold the creature at bay—before it consumes the island.

In "Paint a Picture in Crimson," Count Damon—artistic, enigmatic, and rumored to be the devil himself—lives and works in Soho, London, where his brushstrokes carry a darker purpose. When a model marries a nobleman and begins a violent descent, her fate becomes entangled in a web of passion, blood, and secrets that even the most skilled painter might not foresee.

In "I Was in the Clutches of the Living Shadow," a young writer stumbles upon a terrifying sight: two-dimensional alien warriors materializing as living shadows across the city. As the creatures move through walls and flicker at the edge of vision, he barely escapes their grasp and races to alert the authorities—just in time to expose the invaders before they take hold.

In "House of the Screaming Fiends," a young doctor and his wife inherit a decaying mansion steeped in dread, only to discover it's a tomb for the undead and their grotesque experiments. As the truth of the house's horrors unfolds, the young doctor must confront the malevolent legacy of the old doctor and his caretaker—leading to a clash where the victims rise up against their tormentors. The flames that consume the house may be the only mercy left.