Adventures into the Unknown #16

Pat Bancroft, a geologist investigating volcanic activity near Costa Rica's Cuilapa crater, encounters the mysterious Sangra and her strange companions in the shadow of the erupting volcano. As Pat grows drawn to Sangra despite her childlike manner and cryptic pleas for help, he finds himself caught between a dangerous secret tied to the crater itself and forces far more sinister than any earthquake. When Sangra's true nature and the nature of her "friends" are finally revealed in the crimson glow of the volcanic fissures, Pat must use his wits—and an unexpected discovery about what repels the creatures—to survive the night.

When Hugh Martinson discovers mysterious blueprints for a time machine in his laboratory, he and his fiancée Cora decide to build and test the device—only to find themselves projected thousands of years into the future, where Earth has become an alien battleground. Mistaken for enemy spies and brought before the ruler of this distant age, the couple must navigate a world transformed beyond recognition while searching for a way home.

A brilliant hypnotist named Wizardi reunites with an old friend, Dr. Kevin Johnson, only to find his grandiose plans for dominating minds through mass hypnosis threatened by a mysterious illness. When Johnson arrives at Wizardi's home claiming to know the limits of his power, the hypnotist attempts to intimidate him with a terrifying revelation—the dark forces and demons that have been whispering their secrets to him. As the two men clash over ambition, control, and the nature of evil itself, Wizardi discovers that some powers may be far more dangerous to wield than he ever imagined.

In "Lincoln's Strange Vision," Abraham Lincoln recounts a disturbing dream in which he wandered the White House and discovered a funeral procession in the East Room—only to learn the president himself lay dead, killed by an assassin. Troubled by the vivid nightmare, Lincoln finds himself haunted by an inexplicable sense of dread that lingers long after he wakes. Days later, his premonition takes on a haunting significance.

When newspaper reporters Sandra and Don investigate strange occurrences at the zoo, they encounter a phantom that seems to command the tigers themselves—and their investigation leads them to Mr. Adams, a big-game hunter who carries a dark secret from his days in Bengal. Years ago, Adams killed a tiger in a mysterious village graveyard and pocketed sacred cat's-eye gems, and now something from that cursed night has followed him home, manifesting as an unholy apparition determined to reclaim what was taken. As the supernatural terror escalates, Sandra, Don, and a police officer named Mike find themselves caught between a vengeful phantom and the glowing, impossible creature it commands.

In "Spirit of Frankenstein [Part 7]," Dr. Warren pushes the boundaries of science by crafting a lifelike plastic skin and using it to cloak a radio-controlled synthetic man built on a bullet-proof steel frame. But when his jealous assistant secretly implants his own brain into the creature, the experiment takes a dangerous turn—unleashing a being caught between man and machine, with ambitions of its own.

When William Baber opened a sealed storeroom in his Bristol home, he unwittingly released a ghostly disturbance—the spirit of the former owner, Mrs. Drury, now haunting the house as a glowing phantom that terrorizes his family night and day. Even Rev. Francis J. Maddock's desperate attempt at exorcism fails to banish her, and by early 1950, the supernatural visitation has only grown stranger and more sinister.