Weird Horrors #8

When Sgt. Tom Sales blacks out during maneuvers in 1944 England, he awakens as Titus Salvius, a Roman tribune whose wife Ladicca and children face a deadly curse from a vengeful Druid while he's stationed far away at Hadrian's Wall. Captured by the Picts and tortured, Titus fights a desperate, seemingly impossible escape—only to find himself pulled back into the present, where a mysterious doctor arrives to treat his fractured mind. Sales must grapple with a vision that felt hauntingly real, and a chilling revelation that blurs the line between past and present.

In his London library, Sir Oliver Duncan-Fyfe receives devastating news from Inspector Firth: his young wife Lydia has vanished without a trace, along with a man named Cromwell Trump. But there's far more to the mystery than the inspector suspects—a strange secret lies hidden within those very walls, one that will change everything Sir Oliver thought he knew about his wife's devotion and his beloved ancestral home.

In Lower Manhattan, the eccentric rag-picker known as Queen Moll—who insists she's royalty and knights her friends on whim—has a mysterious connection to Patrolman Neil Reagan, whose brother is murdered by a mob of bank robbers who vanish without a trace. As Reagan searches desperately for answers, Queen Moll guides him to a discovery that will reveal how justice has already been served in her tiny, secret realm.

When a wealthy industrialist's private plane crashes in the remote Canadian wilderness, he awakens to find his pilot, Frank Trow—a man ruined by his business dealings—alive and eerily composed, guiding him down a mysterious road that locals call the Road to Nowhere, a place between life and death where fates are decided. As Carlow navigates this nightmarish landscape with his would-be killer, he must uncover the truth about Trow's impossible survival and the sinister forces at work before it's too late. Written by an author working with interior artist credited in the original 1953 publication, this six-page tale twists expectation into genuine dread.

Gregg Towland journeys up the Agoula River with Diane Duval to claim a fortune in Ashanti temple gold, but discovers the treasure is guarded by superstitious natives who revere the gods Kuna and Anuk. When a clever scheme involving a golden mask of Kuna promises to unlock the vault, Gregg sets events in motion that spiral far beyond his control, with deadly consequences for those around him and unexpected justice waiting in the darkness.