Adventures into the Unknown #77

Bart Lanning, a brilliant scientist, develops the Lanning Detector—a device that measures human emotion with stunning precision—only to witness a startling phenomenon when testing it on a condemned prisoner. When strange visions begin appearing in connection with the device's most extreme readings, Bart's quest to find a scientific explanation leads him from a haunted house to the Arizona desert and toward a discovery that will challenge everything he knows about reality and the ancient past.

When frogs mysteriously rain down from the sky across the globe—always young, always peculiarly white, and never accompanied by water or other pond life—scientists and psychic researchers struggle to explain the phenomenon that has recurred sporadically for over a century. "No. 1 Falling Frogs" explores the baffling mystery behind these otherworldly downpours, presenting theories both conventional and cosmic. A president of the Psychic Society invites readers to consider whether these creatures might hail from another world entirely.

Financier John Shaw's smug certainty about his own ruthlessness gets tested when a breakdown forces him into an all-night diner on a desolate road—where the staff and patrons are far less impressed by his wealth and arrogance than he'd like. As Shaw's night takes increasingly surreal turns, he's forced to confront what his callous climb to power has cost the people around him. A potent tale of comeuppance from 1956 that reminds you why these old-school morality plays still hit hard.

When a strangely dressed amnesiac arrives at a hospital with no memory of his identity, Dr. Harlow Winters becomes convinced that the man—who displays superhuman abilities and mysterious knowledge—may be a visitor from another world, trapped behind an amnesia barrier caused by entering Earth's atmosphere. As Alice Rogers grows close to the mysterious patient, Dr. Winters pursues his extraordinary theory, only to have the case take an unexpected turn when the man vanishes under mysterious circumstances. A mind-bending tale of lost identity and cosmic mysteries from 1956.