Weird Terror #7

On the dangerous Rock River Dam project, Joe Kratz's rivalry with coworker Ray Macon over a woman named Dinah escalates from fistfights to something far darker—and when the construction site demands its due, Joe takes a terrible action he can never undo. As the massive concrete structure rises day by day, Joe must live with what he's sealed away, all while the job continues around him and Dinah remains in the picture. The dam itself becomes both monument and tomb, and the weight of Joe's secret grows heavier with each passing shift.

A cursed artifact hammered from ancient metal, the Mask of Medusa carries the lethal hatred of a figure from Greek myth—beautiful to the pure of heart, but deadly to those who see only evil in its gaze. Pete Niorisi, a curio shop proprietor, has watched the mask pass through the hands of collectors and thieves, each owner meeting a gruesome end at the artifact's supernatural touch. Now the mask has vanished once more, and Niorski can only wonder where it rests and whose fate it will seal next.

Walt Barker, a brilliant race-car engineer, implants an artificial brain into his prized racing vehicle, giving it consciousness and the ability to think—but when criminals sabotage his operation and threaten his creation, the newly sentient machine begins its own unexpected journey of development. What starts as a single act of self-defense sets off a chain of events that transforms Petey far beyond anything Barker could have imagined, leading to a reckoning between creator and creation that challenges everything the inventor thought he understood about his own work.

In "The Evil Ones!", statistician John Anders uncovers a chilling truth: every accident isn’t random—it’s orchestrated by malevolent gnomes lurking beneath the city. When the creatures sense his discovery, Anders must flee for his life, racing through streets that now feel alive with hidden menace.