Unusual Tales #38

Bruce Lacey, a determined skin-diver and treasure-hunter, ignores warnings to search Whitebird Bay near the remote Florida town of Terra del Oro for a legendary Spanish galleon—and its gold. When he arrives, the locals seem determined to keep him away, and a mysterious encounter underwater nearly costs him his life, until a beautiful local woman pulls him to safety. Now Lacey must decide whether the real treasure lies beneath the waves or in something far more precious.

Spelunker Jim Haggard and his companion Ellen Morris venture into the notorious Skull Cave despite warnings from fearful locals—only to find themselves trapped in darkness, pursued by mysterious figures hurling flames. As they struggle to escape the pitch-black tunnels, Jim discovers the cave's sinister reputation masks a far more mundane criminal operation, setting the stage for a desperate race against time and fire.

In "The Ungrateful Man," Theo Welch arrives at the governor's mansion, the culmination of a path built on betrayal—only to face the very people he wronged, standing together in quiet judgment. The weight of his choices forces a reckoning, and in that moment, he begins to understand what he’s truly lost.

A fifteen-year-old girl's lifelong fear of thunderstorms deepens when a mysterious stranger appears at her door during a particularly violent storm—a man who seems utterly unafraid of lightning, even drawn to it. As he coaxes her onto the widow's walk to witness the storm's "terrible beauty," she begins to question whether her fear is justified, and whether her midnight visitor is quite what he appears to be. When morning comes, the truth about the stranger proves far stranger than any storm.