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October 16, 2026

Midnight Sons: Blood Hunt (2024) # 3

Cover Date: September 2024; Publication Date: July 2024

Writer: Bryan Hill; Artist: German Peralta; Letterer: VC's Cory Petit; Colorist: Arthur Hesli; Editor: Will Moss; Editor in Chief: C.B. Cebulski; Cover Artist: Ken Lashley

At the haunted hospital in Chicago, Dan Ketch has a conversation with Tulip about Blade, pointing out that he could have stayed to try and kill her, but he didn't. Dan transforms into Ghost Rider, telling Tulip that they have a more pressing mission, and that Blade will have to wait until it is completed. Meanwhile, John Blaze and Victoria Montesi talk with the nurse they rescued, Julie, and explain that another reality is trying to invade through the hospital. Victoria convinces Julie to help by giving them her fears to use in a spell.

Deciding to trust them, Julie leads them to them incinerator room. Victoria instructs Julie to recall her greatest fear in vivid detail, which the invading entity will latch on to and manifest as her nightmare, allowing the Midnight Sons the opportunity to kill it. Julie recounts a story from a Halloween several years before when a college kid was killed in a fire and she imagined his corpse sitting up in the morgue. Montesi casts her spell and a grotesque creature comes to life inside the morgue. The Midnight Sons allow Julie to act as bait, and when the creature stalks toward her Blaze downs it with his hellfire shotgun. Victoria casts a banishment spell that turns the creature into maggots, which she then instructs Ghost Rider to cleanse with his hellfire chain. Recognizing that the hospital is now free from the evil spirits that had been haunting, the three Midnight Sons notice that Tulip has already left them, deciding to hunt down Blade alone.

Later, weeks after the defeat of Varnae, the vampire lord who had possessed Blade, Tulip tracks Blade down to a monastery in Thailand. Convinced that Blade is himself again, Tulip tells him that Ghost Rider, Blaze, and Montesi gave up on tracking him down and have gone their separate ways once again. When Tulip asks Blade if he really would have killed her, he can only reply that he wished he knew.