Tales Too Terrible to Tell #7

In "Life Insurance," a desperate man named Casper answers a chilling ad for Obelisk Life Insurance, lured by the promise of immortality. The gaunt, unsettling owner claims the policy ensures the applicant will never die—no matter what. When a horrific car accident leaves Casper blind, deaf, and trapped in a ruined body, he realizes too late that being immortal doesn’t mean being alive.

In "The Corpse That Came to Dinner," a newlywed couple’s quiet reunion is shattered when they learn their friend died by suicide—driven by unrequited love for the bride. Days later, the man’s corpse rises from the grave and begins a relentless, chilling siege on their apartment, turning their sanctuary into a nightmare.

In "Custodian of the Dead," the quiet rituals of the cemetery take a grim turn as undertaker Horace Vennery, by night a graverobber preying on the dead, finds his secret life unraveling in the dark. When a sudden cave-in traps him beneath the earth, his fate becomes a grim reckoning in the silence of the underground.

In "Cry from the Coffin," a nameless man lies trapped in his own body after a sudden accident, fully aware as his unfaithful wife identifies his lifeless form, his heart is removed in an autopsy, and his own funeral is held—each moment a torment he cannot escape.

In "All, or Nothing at All!", a brilliant surgeon becomes obsessed with securing her husband’s complete devotion—so complete, she’ll go to any extreme to claim it. When she discovers he’s involved with a nurse, her obsession takes a terrifyingly literal turn.