Strange Terrors #2

When a patient dies on the operating table during what should be a routine procedure, Dr. Philip Craven manages the impossible—he brings the man back to life. But something has gone terribly wrong: the body that awakens is no longer human, and Dr. Craven realizes a malevolent being from another world has seized this second chance at existence. Now the doctor must stop his own creation before it can prepare more bodies for its otherworldly masters to inhabit.

Two Devil's Island convicts, Paul Bernard and Jacques Marcel, flee the prison when they learn they'll be extradited to France for execution—only to encounter a mysterious old man peddling shrunken heads on a desolate beach. Desperate to escape, they accept passage on his boat, but their salvation becomes a nightmare when they discover the other passengers share the faces of the severed heads, and the Keeper's curse begins to close in. A haunting tale of inescapable doom wrapped in supernatural suspense.

Dr. Rudolph Webb, a brilliant but morally unhinged researcher, has developed a horrifying method to transform humans into animal-human hybrids through hormone injections—and he's already created monstrous creatures locked in his laboratory. When Martha and her uncle Dr. Meade visit Webb's Victorian house to investigate his claims, they discover the terrible truth firsthand, and Tony Kendall must fight his way through Webb's inhuman creations to save them from becoming the mad doctor's next experiments.

Customs Inspector Clyde McGovern investigates a suspicious shipment: a massive Hindu idol imported by millionaire collector W. J. Thorpe from Ceylon to San Francisco, only to discover a seaman murdered aboard the vessel—and a mysterious Hindu soothsayer named Mojaru lurking nearby with ties to Thorpe's household. As McGovern closes in on the truth hidden within the idol, he uncovers a dark secret that connects the statue to Thorpe's drowned son and a deadly game of deception that reaches far beyond simple smuggling.

When Ronald Heatherton brings home a mysterious antique mirror discovered in his grandfather's attic, his bride Miriam's terror proves prescient—the looking glass is no ordinary heirloom, but a "Gypsy-Soul" mirror tied to an old curse of revenge. As Ronald dismisses her warnings and moonlight reveals something horrifying in the glass's depths, the household descends into fear and strange occurrences that force him to uncover a dark trial from his family's past. What Ronald discovers about the curse's true target threatens everything he believes about the woman he loves.