Weird #8

In "The Murder Pool," a grotesque and vengeful tale from 1968, the repulsive James Gorse takes sadistic pleasure in his custom-built pool—filled not with water, but with a crimson acid that dissolves flesh to bone. He lures his enemies into the pool, reveling in their agonizing demise, until his own wife turns the tables in a moment of desperate fury.

In the shadowed heart of Germany, newlyweds Mark and Joyce seek shelter at the foreboding Werewolf Castle, where the baron and baroness Gotha welcome them with unsettling charm. As night falls, the castle’s secrets stir, and the honeymooners find themselves caught in a dark tradition that rewrites their fate with every passing dawn.

In "The Ghoul and the Guest," a starving tramp seeking shelter at a remote farmhouse meets a grim fate when the house’s woman demands he chop wood before eating—only to die from the effort. That night, he returns as a relentless, wood-chopping zombie, bound to complete his task. When he finally enters the home for his meal, the woman’s shock proves fatal.

In "Stretching Things," Lawrence Dawson, a man whose fragile bones have defined his life, finds sudden hope in a mysterious cure—but the treatment comes with a terrifying twist. As his body gains an unnatural elasticity, his desperation to hide his condition leads him down a path of violence, leaving a trail of dead scientists in his wake. When the police finally close in, they find only a shapeless stain where he once stood.