Terror Tales #1

In a remote African outpost, planter Reed faces a desperate choice when his wife Alice needs a life-saving operation in England. Dr. Bishop offers to fund it—if Reed signs over his corpse for medical research, claiming Reed himself is dying. Torn between love and survival, Reed agrees. When Alice returns cured, her growing closeness with Bishop ignites a dark suspicion. As Reed plots revenge, a deadly twist unfolds—one that leads to a final, fatal reckoning.

In the isolated dread of a remote island, Lawrence Mason survives by hunting the endless snakes that infest the land. When a mysterious woman named Asptha washes ashore, he offers her refuge—and soon finds himself drawn to her in ways he can't explain. But as the serpent's shadow grows longer, the line between protector and prey begins to blur.