Worlds Beyond #1

In "Doorway to Horror," art collector Lyle Bagett steps into a haunted house that traps him in a chilling reenactment of a painter’s murder—committed by his wife as she immortalized his final moments on canvas. The story unfolds with a creeping dread, as Bagett becomes both witness and participant in a crime that refuses to stay in the past.

In "Twice Alive!", Mitchell Ames wakes up in a surreal afterlife inside his own body, where he confronts his ancestors and faces judgment from the Angel of Death. When he’s miraculously revived by doctors, the living world is stunned by what he’s seen—and what he now carries with him.

A commercial pilot's cowardice comes back to haunt him when he abandons his passengers during a catastrophic plane fire and parachutes to safety in the African jungle. Stranded and desperate, Gar Macon encounters a mysterious witch doctor who bears an unsettling resemblance to Marcambo, a sorcerer he'd mocked aboard the doomed flight—and soon finds himself caught between terrifying visions, hostile natives, and forces that seem determined to make him answer for his betrayal. As Macon claws his way back to civilization and boards another aircraft, the line between his guilty conscience and something far more sinister begins to blur in ways he cannot ignore.