Adventures into the Unknown #100
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis 100th anniversary issue is an anthology featuring multiple stories. "The Head Man" depicts an American businessman who encounters an alien civilization of intelligent robot beings on another planet and is captured and interrogated by them about human nature. "Preliminary Hearing" follows a woman named Helene who testifies at a supernatural court proceeding about her Uncle Martin's death, recounting a strange dream where she and her uncle soared upward on a cloud. "Nothing Ever Happens to Halloran" shows a man named Joey Halloran whose life is marked by the ironic reality that while extraordinary events constantly befall others, nothing remarkable ever happens to him.
Ed Wilson leaves his small town sweetheart Francie behind, driven by ambition to become somebody in New York City, but his climb to power takes him down a dark path—working for crime boss Mike Farroni and ultimately landing in prison. When he escapes and tracks down Francie, hoping to reunite with the woman who promised to wait for him, he discovers she's built a new life without him, and a desperate chase leads him to a strange structure that will alter the course of his entire existence. What begins as a tale of ambition and heartbreak spirals into something far more cosmic and consequential than Ed could ever have imagined.
Dr. Glenn Ormsby recounts the strange case of his patient Helen Verral, whose sleepwalking troubles deepen when her uncle Martin is struck down during a bitter family quarrel—and her brother Hal is arrested for the crime. When Helen shares a vivid dream of attending a supernatural "Court of the Unknown" hearing for her uncle's soul, Dr. Ormsby must untangle what is real, what is memory, and what her troubled mind has conjured to save her brother from conviction. A tale where the boundary between dream and truth proves far more fragile than anyone dares admit.
In 1958, Captain Robert Davis is commissioned to command the Moray, America's newest atomic submarine—unaware that a descendant of his ancestor Ichabod Davis's old enemy, Hosmer Everson, has inherited his ancestor's treacherous nature and plans to sabotage the launching with a hidden mine. When strange forces stir beneath the waves, an impossible phantom rises from the deep to intercept the deadly trap, leaving investigators baffled by the mystery that unfolds.
Joey Halloran's convinced that nothing interesting ever happens to him—until his morning walk to school takes an unexpected turn when mysterious beings from the 12th Dimension pull him into their world for scientific study. When they decide to reward him for his cooperation, their gift lands him right back where he started, none the wiser about his cosmic adventure, ready to deliver a report to Miss Shapiro that proves his point all over again.
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Reprinted in Unknown Worlds #38 (1965), Unknown Worlds #48 (1966), Astounding Stories #85 (1971), Secrets of the Unknown #163 (1976), Secrets of the Unknown #202 (1981), Astounding Stories #189 (1988), Sinister Tales #222 (1988), Crypt of Horror #31 (2016), Adventures into the Unknown #13, Secrets of the Unknown #56
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