Weird Horrors #9

In the shadowed halls of a forgotten mansion, a newlywed couple stumbles upon an ancient World Atlas from 79 A.D.—a book that turns every touch into reality. As they trace distant lands with their fingers, disasters unfold across the globe, from crumbling cities to unseen forces reshaping the world. With power in their hands and danger in their wake, they begin to test the limits of a map that knows no bounds.

When Tom Leslie moves into his inherited house with his wife Lora, his curiosity about a sealed attic door leads him to discover a hidden portrait of Mark Leslie, his murderous great-grandfather—a man executed for strangling his own wife and rumored to have practiced dark rituals. Despite warnings from the family servant Malcolm that the painting carries a curse, Tom insists on displaying it in the living room, only to find himself haunted by the spirit of Mark Leslie, who demands vengeance against the descendants of those who condemned him. As the ghost's sinister influence grows stronger, Tom faces a terrifying struggle between his own will and the malevolent force that has claimed him from beyond the grave.

In "Did He Die?", a desperate valet named William Shawley assumes the identity of his famous employer, actor Victor Carruthers, after a mysterious disappearance. But as Shawley settles into his new life, the lingering presence of the man he replaced begins to blur the line between memory and madness—until Carruthers’ ghostly grip threatens to unravel everything.

When retired detective Lucian Hallop is called to the state penitentiary with urgent news about Professor Black's execution, he discovers something impossible—the man strapped in the electric chair wasn't Black at all, but a figure from ancient Greece. Black, a practitioner of dark magic, has used a mystical formula to escape death and slip through time itself. Now Hallop must pursue the criminal through the centuries, landing in ancient Athens where Black faces execution once again—and where the detective's own fate becomes dangerously entangled with forces beyond his control.