The Beyond #26

In the scorching sands of northern Africa, the beggar Mejm wields a cursed glove stolen from a long-dead sorcerer, using its power to enslave men for a brutal railroad project. When the sorcerer’s spirit returns, vengeance stirs in the dust—and the glove’s grip grows colder with every step.

Dr. Hugo Todt, a German surgeon in World War I, develops a serum designed to revive fallen soldiers—but when he tests the formula on a laboratory rat, the experiment spirals into something far more horrifying than he anticipated. As the night wears on, Todt and his colleague Dr. Mayer discover that the serum's effects have gone catastrophically wrong, unleashing a terror that no mortal ingenuity can contain.

In "Death Writes the Horoscope," gangster Vince Yorga discovers a dark power tied to the zodiac, using it to seize wealth and control—until the forces he summoned turn on him, claiming his soul as payment. A chilling tale of ambition and retribution, this 1954 horror-suspense story unfolds with a cold, inevitable dread, its eerie tone heightened by stark, typeset lettering.

A wealthy man's obsession with a torture chamber collection takes a supernatural turn when a servant's whipping goes terribly wrong—and the punishment he inflicts seems to return upon him in impossible ways. Years later, psychiatrist Dr. Lenox Wingard attempts to cure Thurman Renauld of a consuming fear that may be far more than imagination, only to discover that some terrors refuse to stay locked away.

In "The Secret Fear of Thurman Renauld," a man haunted by his dread of the full moon seeks help from psychiatrist Dr. Wingard after his wife vanishes. As their sessions unfold, Thurman confronts buried memories that force him to face a truth he can no longer deny—his own monstrous nature.

In "Me - Beast!", Jay Harlow stumbles upon a pair of mysterious spectacles that reveal the monstrous truth beneath humanity’s surface—every man, it seems, hides a beast within. When the lenses turn on Harlow himself, his own reflection shatters the illusion, exposing a gorilla beneath the skin.