Dates
- Cover date
- December 1956
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Things in the Window · 4 pages
Cal rents a isolated house whose former tenant, a young woman, mysteriously disappeared. He discovers that one of the house's windows lets no light into the property. Climbing through it, he enters a strange other dimension, where he finds the former tenant, and helps her escape back to their own dimension, evading some mist-like creatures. Once back in their own world, Cal smashes the window, destroying the gateway.
- The Forbidden Land · 4 pages
World View magazine sends a team to watch an ancient ritual performed by a tribe of Peruvian Indians. The men observe the sacred rites, despite the Indians attempts to stop them. However, when they return to the magazine's offices they find that all was not what it seemed.
- Let the Creature Beware! · 4 pages
Conman Judd Kerr gets more than he bargained for when he tries to part the inhabitants of Abbyville by claiming that an alien is living in their midst.
- The Dreadful Dream · 3 pages
Frank Beech wakes from a dream in which he is involved in a train wreck. En route to work the next morning, his dream comes true - and then he wakes up. It was a dream within a dream. He decides not to tempt fate by going into work that day.
- Secrets from Space · 2 pages
- The Man with Yellow Eyes · 4 pages
Sgt. Lee Forest, nick-named 'Yellow Eyes' by the other members of his platoon, is a giant of a man, with an almost cat-like way of moving. Serving in Africa during World War II, his life is saved by another member of the platoon. Both men go their separate ways after the war, though both remain in Africa. When his savior is attacked by a lion, Forest emerges from the jungle and calls it off. His debt repayed, 'Yellow Eyes' returns to his true home - the depths of the jungle.
- What Happened in the Basement? · 4 pages
When a freak accident transports John Winters 550 years into the future, he is arrested as an alien spy. Given ten minutes to prove his innocence, he is saved when one of his sons enters the basement and switches off Winters' "accidental time machine", thus bringing the inventor back to his own time.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Astounding Stories (1966), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963)