Adventures into the Unknown #66

Bud Stanhope attends Professor P. W. Stearns's lecture on the theory that time itself exists all around us, waiting to be entered through the power of mind—then returns home to Salem to discover his family's house and fortune are about to be lost. While searching through his ancestor Ezra Stanhope's old diary for clues to a legendary hidden gold, Bud finds himself mysteriously transported back to 1723, face to face with Ezra himself and a young woman named Judith. Now stranded in the past, Bud must navigate a world two centuries removed from his own while keeping his impossible origins secret.

Frank Tremaine's parents envision a bright future for their newborn son—until a chance encounter with a stray cat sets off a chain of unforeseen consequences that alters the course of his entire life. This haunting tale explores how the smallest moments can reshape destiny, and shows what might have become of a boy when circumstance, not character alone, writes his story.

A mysterious glowing sphere crashes to Earth unseen, and Jim discovers something impossible at a nearby farm—a second tree where only one stood before. When the shapeshifting alien infiltrates Dr. Bowes's laboratory to steal secrets of a new atomic engine, it spreads across the countryside in various forms, gathering intelligence for an impending invasion. As summer fades and the creature prepares its return to space, a faithful dog and an unexpected ally stand between Earth and catastrophe.

When a poor farm boy named Danny Davis flees his miserable life with his miserly cousin Jabez, he encounters a mysterious three-way fork in the road with no signposts—and must choose his path blindly, unaware that fate itself seems to be guiding his decision. What unfolds is a haunting tale of a many-armed Buddha statue that appears to hold the key to Danny's destiny, as the story explores what might have happened had he taken any of the other roads instead. Through multiple glimpses of parallel lives shaped by choice and chance, this 1955 fantasy examines whether we truly control our fates or merely stumble along the paths that were always meant for us.

On her wedding day in 1941, Cora Jowett receives a mysterious telegram warning her not to board a particular flight to Europe—a message that hits close to home, given her late father's decades of work as a dispatcher. Despite reassurances from the airline that the plane is safe, Cora's uncanny instinct compels her and her new husband Martin to take a later flight instead. When the original aircraft encounters a violent storm over the coast, the couple can only wonder whether the cryptic warning saved their lives.