The Phantom Stranger #16

In "Image in Wax," the enigmatic Phantom Stranger arrives at Judah Tallow’s eerie wax museum, where the wheelchair-bound curator has preserved the amnesiac Dalia—once a queen of a forgotten realm of sorcery—locked in wax for centuries. As the Stranger probes the museum’s occult secrets, he uncovers Tallow’s twisted plan to awaken her and unleash an ancient sorcerous army upon the modern world.

Mark Merlin and Elsa Magnusson journey to central Pennsylvania to aid Henrietta Von Halz, a young woman haunted by a curse tied to her family’s past during the colonial witch trials. As they delve into the mystery, they must confront the lingering power of Spinster Toten’s hex and the secrets buried beneath the town’s surface—especially as the enigmatic Peter Stalb and the mysterious Black Moon begin to play their own roles in the unfolding danger.