Web of Evil #18 (1954)

In "Scared to Death," medical student Guy Bradbury becomes the unwitting target of a prank gone wrong when his friends frighten him with a corpse—feeding his belief in the supernatural. After a terrifying accident leaves him mutilated, he fakes his death and vanishes, only to return years later to confront those who mocked him.

In the shadow of the unconquered Mount Karachi, a wild man stalks the peaks, claiming victims and terrifying new expeditions. When Jean Beauchamp arrives to uncover the truth behind his father’s disappearance, he’s stunned to find the creature is not a monster—but his long-missing father, lost to the mountain’s secrets.

In the dusty Texas countryside, Sheriff Peters faces a chilling mystery when the reanimated father and daughter Eaglesham emerge from their tomb, claiming their ancestral land. But as the sheriff investigates, he uncovers a far more dangerous truth—these so-called undead are not ghosts, but living frauds with a deadly secret buried beneath the soil.