The Beyond #23

In "In the Coils of the Python Queen," Harley Dolan brings exotic pythons from India to showcase in his circus, with the mesmerizing Boidae as their presenter. But beneath her elegant charm lies a secret: Boidae and her serpents are were-snakes, bound by a deadly vengeance—her husband’s death at Dolan’s hands.

In a forgotten corner of the Malayan jungle, an explorer stumbles upon a crumbling tomb and learns of a terrifying secret: ancient vines that don’t just grow—they hunt. As the jungle whispers its warnings, the line between discovery and doom begins to blur.

Hal Warren, a TV cameraman filming horror on location in Paris, reconnects with an old friend Pierre Daguerre who's invented something terrifying—a mystical camera that can resurrect the dead from their graves to reveal how they were murdered. When the device proves itself by forcing a hidden killer to confess, Hal becomes obsessed with claiming the camera for himself, setting in motion a chain of dark consequences that neither man could have foreseen.

In a forgotten corner of a Spanish castle, two ancient stone gargoyles watch over a secret tragedy: a hunchback who fled with the castle owner’s daughter, their love forged in shadow, then shattered by death—leaving her to bear his curse in body and spirit.

In "Talisman of the Evil Brood," newspaper columnist Ronald Colby’s ruthless crusade against the mystic Madame Khal takes a deadly turn when she gifts him a ring that reveals his inner demons. As the visions consume him, Colby finds himself pursued through his own guilty conscience—until he’s dragged into the depths of Hades.