Suspense #16

In "Alone in the Dark!", ten-year-old Donald Dugan faces his terrifying uncle Claude on a night when the clock strikes midnight—just as the man reveals his deadly plan. With the house dark and silence broken only by the chime of the hour, Donald’s fear turns to something far more primal. The story unfolds in chilling suspense, leaving readers to wonder what lies beneath the surface of a boy who’s not quite human.

In "My Coffin Is Crowded," a desperate convict agrees to a chilling bargain: if he’s buried alive in a marked coffin, the man who hired him will dig him up after the body is interred. Trapped in the dark, he waits, but as hours pass with no sign of rescue, he finally lights a match—only to realize the corpse beside him is the very man who promised to save him.

In "The Corpse," a diver’s greed leads him to murder an old man for a map to a sunken freighter filled with gold—only to find himself trapped when the corpse he’d earlier dumped into the sea tangles his air hose. The story unfolds in chilling silence beneath the waves, where every breath becomes a fight for survival.

In "Backstage Horror!", a desperate actor schemes to eliminate a rival by luring him into a terrifying role—knowing full well the man’s intense method acting could turn deadly. But when the lines between performance and reality blur, the plan takes a horrifying turn that leaves the manipulator facing the very fate he intended for another.