Out of the Night #11 (1953)

In the electric aftermath of a condemned man’s execution, the spirit of Spark Smith—fused by lightning and electrocution—rises as a vengeful phantom of living electricity, targeting those who wronged him. As he stalks his former judges and jurors with deadly precision, a reporter and his fiancée race to uncover the truth before the spectral killer claims one final victim.

In the remote jungles of South America, engineer Burt Lazarus leads a crew to complete a massive power plant, but their progress is haunted by the disappearance of previous teams and the locals’ warnings of a creature known as the Bejango. When his assistant Sue vanishes after venturing into the jungle, Burt must confront both the terrifying legends and the eerie forces that seem to control her actions. As the jungle itself appears to conspire against them, Burt races to uncover the truth before the Bejango’s influence claims them all.

In a tense courtroom, ten-year-old Jimmy Davis recounts seeing a monstrous, invisible creature—dubbed the Weird Winger—pounce on a man near Old Mill Road, a claim met with disbelief despite his terror. As the story unfolds, Dr. Preston reveals the creature can only be seen through special lenses, requiring a risky operation using living brain tissue, forcing a desperate choice when the creature reappears at Jimmy’s home.

In the quiet aftermath of summer, a mysterious and unsettling figure known only as Mr. Ishveli drifts through a series of strange encounters—first in the office of a corrupt financier, then in the home of a glamorous woman, and finally as a guardian to a young boy he rescues from a fatal accident. As the boy grows up under Ishveli’s watchful eye, he begins to suspect something deeply unnatural about the man who claims to care for him, especially when he witnesses the old man vanish through solid walls and hears whispers of a life that refuses to age.