This Is How It Is #[nn]

In the shadowed depths of the Harz mountains, longtime friends and speleologists Henri Duval and Jean Marchant navigate more than just treacherous caves—jealousy and old wounds surface as Henri grapples with Inger Jenson’s marriage to Jean. As their expedition takes a sinister turn, the line between rivalry and survival blurs, and the unseen watchers beneath the earth begin to close in.

Morton Gault fakes his death to secure an inheritance for his wife, Eunice, but when she leaves him buried alive, he must fight to survive the dark, suffocating silence—while Dr. Lake watches from the shadows, silent and knowing.

In "Ghostmaster," Leland Menn, a reclusive designer with a haunted past, crafts a terrifyingly immersive haunted house for an amusement park. On opening day, visitors rave about the realism—until the park staff discovers Leland dead in the control room, his body cold for over a day, leaving the line between illusion and the supernatural dangerously blurred.

Dr. Graves introduces a chilling tale of vengeance, where a man wrongfully condemned to the gallows sets in motion a grim retribution. As the men responsible for his fate—and the executioner who carried it out—begin to die one by one, each met with the same noose, the mystery deepens.