The 39 Screams #1

In "Till Death Do Us Part," Rachel Devon lies near death, her husband Lance holding vigil not out of love, but out of desperation to find her will. With Lora Ann quietly orchestrating the night’s events, the nurse is sent home and Rachel’s medicine is altered—setting off a chilling return that defies the grave.

In a grim, rain-slicked night, a drunk finds himself irresistibly drawn to a ventriloquist’s doll, its glassy eyes seeming to watch him from the shop window. After a brutal night of drinking and a humiliating firing, he returns home to confront his parents—his father, haunted by age and regret, and his mother, silent and distant. As the weight of their lives presses in, the doll begins to move on its own, pulling him from the bar’s depths in a final, desperate act. But even a puppet can’t bear the burden of human sorrow forever.