Dates
- Cover date
- September 1955
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Pussycat on the Dog Star! · 11 pages
Zeke Jones, a scientist, receives a distress signal from the Dog Star Sirius. Flying to Sirius using a sphere of his own invention, he helps the local population repel an onslaught of intelligent Dinosaurs that have been spreading terror across their land.
- Picture of an Heir · 1 pages
After old Phineas Begley, a multi-millionaire, dies, everyone came forward claiming to be an heir. A woman named Henrietta came forward with her boy Abernathy. At first deemed frauds like everyone else, the estate lawyers noticed that little Abernathy looked exactly like a old portrait of Abernathy Begley, the founder of the Begley estate.
- The Hypnotic Trance! · 8 pages
Frank Hanson is put under hypnosis by a hypnotist named Thorko on an ocean cruise. This incredibly causes a double of himself to form. This double then tries to live Frank's life getting him into all sorts of trouble. Eventually Frank's wife Alice, drugs the double with spiked tea. When the double falls unconscious it ceases to exist.
- The Master of Illusions! · 8 pages
Mary, a reporter, becomes smitten with a man named Thoron the Great. Thoron is a great illusionist who can do almost supernatural things. It turns out he is actually an alien from the planet Asperia who was simply vacationing on Earth.
Reprinted in
Uncanny Tales (1963), Adventures into the Unknown (1948), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Collected Works: Forbidden Worlds (2011)