"The Ending, in Anger!"
The Panther travels south with Monica Lynne and fiance Kevin Trublood, to her parents' home in Georgia. His memories of torture at the hands of Dragon Circle cultists come flooding back. Orchestrating that torture from the shadows was the enigmatic Reverend Blackburn.
A Dragon Circle get-together is dispersed by Klansmen. Their objective is to kill the Reverend to neutralize the head of their local opposition.
As a pair of Klansmen take Blackburn down river to execute him, they get lost in the mists of the swamp. Apparitions from the past appear as plantation slaves, and the Soul Strangler is never far behind.
T'Challa defeats the demon and exorcises his own self-doubt concurrently.