Adventures into Weird Worlds #2

Dates

Cover date

February 1952

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• The Iron Door · 6 pages

  In the 45th century, humanity lives in underground cities. Their entire lives are run by machines connected to a super computer hidden behind a huge iron door. One day when the machines stop working, a young man named Vashto tells the council to let him open the iron door and sees what the problem is. They reluctantly let him. Inside he sees an old man named Kaare. He was the one who built the machines and maintains them. Vashto kills him and then flees the Earth. It turns out he was from the enemy planet Saturn and wanted to sabotage the machines on Earth dooming humans to extinction.

• The Eyes! · 6 pages

  A man accidentally discovers that many successful people actually have another pair of eyes in the back of their heads and one of them kills him to keep the secret.

• The Murdering Ghost · 2 pages

  In Scotland, there is a story about how a murderous ghost of a long dead chieftain will kill anyone who enters his old crumbling castle to get the treasure within. When a visiting businessman from America tries to get at the treasure, the ghost kills him.

• The Thing in the Bottle! · 5 pages

  A crook staying at a flophouse, sees a little man inside a bottle. He lets him free and the it turns out the little man is a genie. He will grant the crook three wishes. The crook asks for wealth and good looks. For his last wish he asks to become a genie so that he would have unlimited wishes. The genie obliges him but putting him inside the bottle and then tossing the bottle into the sea.

• When a World Goes Mad! · 6 pages

  A professor postulates a giant being roaming through space that could eat the planets of the solar system, but that could also be eaten by an even larger being. His students think he's lost his mind. But then a giant being approaches Earth.....

Reprinted in

Spellbound (1960), Mystic (1960), Mystic Bumper Book (1964), Chamber of Chills (1972), Weird Wonder Tales (1973), Crypt of Horror (2005)