Dates
- Cover date
- December 1955
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Illusion! · 5 pages
Cole tells his psychiatrist how a comet eliminated all life on Earth except himself - he informs the psychiatrist that he's a hallucination. However, the psychiatrist maintains he's the last man on Earth and Cole is his own hallucination.
- The Baton · 2 pages
- The Totem! · 5 pages
Clark's men find an Inuit who has a golden totem pole. They take the pole, but when nearly home they awaken to find they've shrunk over night and the totem is gone. They return to reclaim the totem, but the same thing happens again as they near home. Each of Clark's men abandon him as he becomes shorter until he's transformed into a face on the totem pole by aliens, friends of the Inuit man.
- Power! · 4 pages
Ronnie is confronted by sorcerers who reveal his family's divining rod is actually a magic wand which they need to regain power. Ronnie burns the wand.
- I Dare You to Look! · 4 pages
Stephen is always telling lies and Percival prosecutes him for them. Stephen discovers an opening in a tree which leads to the future and shows it to Percival. When Stephen and Percival try to tell others, they're both branded liars.
- The Third Arm! · 5 pages
Johnny tells Mac how he discovered an underground world populated by three-armed men who vowed to transform him into one of their ranks. Johnny fled and has been running since. Then Mac reveals he's one of the three-armed men.
Reprinted in
Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Astounding Stories (1966), Creepy Worlds (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Spellbound (1960), Mystic (1960), Crypt of Horror (2005)