Suspense #9

In "Back from the Dead," a man condemned to prison sends his ghost-soul on a vengeful mission to kill the man whose testimony sent him there. After the murder, the spirit struggles to return to its body—only to be hunted by the very soul it just claimed. The next morning, the jailers find the prisoner dead, baffled by the timing and the mystery of how he could have died so soon after his victim.

In "The Weatherman," a man haunted by a tiny clockface figure that once foretold the stock market with uncanny precision finds his life unraveling when the same figure predicts his death. Terrified by the inevitability of its forecast, he chooses to end his life before he can face the unknown, but the true horror lies not in the act—but in the silence that follows.

In "The Little Men," a lonely inventor, haunted by the constant complaints of his wife, finds an unexpected escape when the last of his mechanical creations—a single, sentient automaton—offers him a shocking transformation. As the man contemplates leaving his life behind, the line between man and machine begins to blur in ways he never imagined.