Startling Terror Tales #6

During the Korean War, Sgt. Bull Whitehead leads his men through a desperate offensive, sacrificing himself by falling on a grenade to protect them—but as the soldiers push forward to complete their mission, they're shocked to encounter their sergeant leading them onward, despite knowing he's dead and buried. Racing through the night under their fallen leader's command, they accomplish what seemed impossible, only to discover the haunting truth when they return to base: Sarge's distinctive footprints in the mud are the only proof that something impossible has occurred.

Daniel Alvarez, a two-time convict fresh out of prison after twelve years, finds himself in a small-town diner waiting for a train—and becomes dangerously fixated on a waitress who rebuffs his advances. When she refuses his persistent overtures, Alvarez's long-suppressed rage boils over in this gritty crime tale from the pages of Startling Terror Tales.

Clare Mangin, a sharp and calculating young woman tired of playing by society's rules, sets her sights on Kansas insurance companies with a scheme as cunning as it is cold—marrying men with the promise of payoffs, then eliminating them one by one. As she perfects her lethal methods and moves from victim to victim, her web of deception grows, but so does the risk that someone will see through her carefully crafted façade. Will her string of "accidents" continue undetected, or will her ambitions finally catch up with her?

Leo Smith and his crew pull off an audacious scheme in the 1920s, hijacking a ship and transforming it for a dangerous voyage—but when they set sail from Melbourne, the law closes in and a violent reckoning erupts on deck. Betrayal, gunfire, and retribution collide as the criminals find themselves cornered at sea with nowhere left to run.