The 1974 Nightmare Yearbook #1

In "A Rottin' Deal," Peter, desperate to claim his uncle Felix Townsend’s fortune, betrays him in the desert, leaving his corpse to rot in an oasis. As Peter presses on, each oasis he reaches reveals his uncle’s decaying body, a grotesque echo of his crime—until he finally outruns the shambling corpse and returns to camp, only to find himself slowly succumbing to the same disease he thought he’d escaped.

In "Whence Stalked the Werewolf," Dr. Allan Bund uses hypnosis to explore the past of a troubled man, only to uncover a terrifying truth: the man was once a werewolf in the 19th century, hunted and slain by villagers. As the trance deepens, the modern-day subject begins to transform, reliving the beast’s ancient rage in the present. Dr. Tracy watches in growing unease as the line between past and present blurs, and the creature from history stirs once more.

In "Power of the Pen," writer Jeff Denning begins to suspect his stories are more than fiction when real events start mirroring his words—his friend George Marsh is struck by a car, and his acquaintance Bonnie Marsh is trapped inside a mirror. As the line between imagination and reality blurs, Jeff scrambles to understand the terrifying truth behind his pen, while his editor Crowley watches closely, and Sandy Preston seems to know more than she lets on.

In 1793, during the bloody chaos of the French Revolution, an old hag meets her end at the guillotine—only to awaken in Hell, where a demon named Vogt offers her a twisted bargain. With Satan’s seal on her soul, she returns to Earth, her body restored but her head missing, now confined to an asylum where madness and bloodshed blur. Madam du Sade and Drakkos find themselves drawn into her nightmarish fate, caught between the living and the damned.