The Thing #4

When construction engineer Alden Blake accepts a lucrative job in Haiti from the wealthy Dr. Raoul Perdu, he discovers the terrible secret behind the doctor's "willing workers"—they're zombies, drugged into servitude to build a dam in the mountains. After Blake himself is transformed into one of the living dead, he becomes trapped in a nightmare of forced labor, but when he realizes the hastily built dam won't survive the coming rains, his engineer's mind rebels against the drug's control. Desperation, flooding, and vengeance drive Blake toward a reckoning with Perdu and his niece Francine in this tale of supernatural horror and betrayal set against Haiti's mysterious darkness.

In "I Was A Zombie," engineer Alden Blake travels to Haiti to oversee the construction of a dam, only to uncover a horrifying secret: the laborers are not merely overworked, but living zombies. When Blake threatens to expose the truth, he is transformed into one of them—yet even in undeath, he finds a way to strike back.

Skipper Steve Payne, a seasoned sailor navigating the waters off the Chinese coast, once saved a man named Ying Ko—now a feared pirate king, Ying Ko returns the favor years later when Payne is in peril. The past and present collide as the sea-born promise of loyalty and redemption takes a dangerous turn.

When a sculptor dies under mysterious circumstances, his blood and ghost seep into a sandstone statue—only to animate it with a deadly purpose. Now, the living statue stalks the man who betrayed him, hunting down the sculptor’s criminal partners. With Terry Morse, Roger Burt, Rufus Helwig, and Professor Lyle Yates entangled in a web of guilt and retribution, the past refuses to stay buried.

In "Partners In Death," a chilling tale from The Thing #4 (1952), Ray Bruce’s betrayal takes a deadly turn when he withholds the heart pills his business partner Howard Croft needs to survive—leading to a slow, painful demise. But Croft’s death doesn’t end the story, as his ghost returns to haunt the man who caused his end, turning their partnership into a haunting reckoning.

In "Twins of Doom," identical brothers Peter and Paul Leverett are reunited after a decade apart—only for a rival’s betrayal to end Paul’s life and plunge Peter into a mysterious coma. When the local sheriff is summoned to investigate, the eerie connection between the twins begins to unravel a deadly secret.