Lafcadio Hearn's The Faceless Ghost and Other Macabre Tales from Japan: A Graphic Novel #1

As a criminal is being readied for execution he vows revenge; the master who will kill him suggests that if the dead man's decapitated head bites down on a stone his haunting will come true; the decapitated head does bite the stone when it lands, but the master knows that because the man's concentration was fixated on the stone, his ghost will not return to haunt anyone; the master is correct.