Dates
- Cover date
- April 1956
- On sale
- December 19, 1955
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- It Happened at Midnight! · 4 pages
A writer thinks up a story about aliens from another dimension who pull a man off the street at midnight and then the same thing happens to him, but the men identity themselves as FBI men looking for an undesirable alien.
- One of Our Ships Is Missing! · 3 pages
Trains, planes, and bicycles disappear as the Martian king seeks a gift for his son, the prince.
- The Man Behind the Mask! · 4 pages
A wealthy miller conducts acts of charity behind a wooden mask, but when events turn for the worse and he has nothing left to contribute, he makes one last trip. As he waits alone with no food, he is surprised to receive gifts from the people he has helped. They tell him that they saw it was him on his last visit, but he says he was wearing the mask. When he takes it out and looks at it, he is astonished to see that it now resembles his face.
- The Plants · 1.67 pages
- The Thing in the Box! · 4 pages
People find a small box with a mirror inside that shows them their true faces.
- There's No Tomorrow · 4 pages
A pirate captures a gypsy scow and a gypsy foretells that the captain's experience tomorrow will be to be stuck in a gale and arrested by the Spanish army. A day goes by uneventfully, but the next day, the prophecy comes true and the captain resolves to hunt down the Gypsy for working her magic on Thursday instead of Wednesday as she said. His Spanish jailers inform him that it is Wednesday, as the gale has pushed his ship across the international date line.
- When Ends the Dream! · 4 pages
Four sailors find an island where their dreams come true.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Astounding Stories (1966), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Sinister Tales (1964), Tomb of Darkness (1974)