Adventures into the Unknown #90
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Old Bunch!" from Adventures into the Unknown #90 (1957), a crippled boy finds sudden fortune by reading the word "Gold" from a mysterious book—only to face a darker turn when his cruel uncle, tempted by the same magic, meets a deadly end after uttering "Fer-De-Lance." Cover by Ogden Whitney, with lettering set in typeset, this eerie tale blends sudden wealth and supernatural retribution in a chilling 1950s horror short.
Lieutenant Frank Cowell has endured months of brutal combat at Korea's Iron Mountain, haunted by the deaths of his entire original platoon—Gill, Johnson, Whyte, Jonas, Murphy, and Miller—until only he remains. When a vivid nightmare shows him his own imminent death in tomorrow's battle, Frank struggles with survivor's guilt and a terrible sense of inevitability. As the attack unfolds exactly as his dream foretold, Frank finds himself alone and facing the final Chinese assault.
A brilliant chemist obsessed with eliminating sleep develops a chemical compound to replace it—and succeeds, staying awake for weeks without fatigue. But as his sleepless mind stretches into uncharted territory, Larry Keith begins experiencing terrifying visions that blur the line between reality and nightmare, and he realizes too late that sleep may serve purposes science never imagined. This 1957 tale from Adventures into the Unknown explores the dark price of tampering with one of life's fundamental mysteries.
June Drake, a nineteen-year-old woman facing a fatal nerve disease with only months to live, finds unexpected solace in the Swiss Alps—a chance meeting with Don Foster, a kind painter at a remote ski lodge, blossoms into love during her final days. But as June struggles to convince Dr. Sloan of Don's reality, troubling questions about her lover's existence begin to surface, pulling her between two worlds she can no longer reconcile.
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Reprinted in Race for the Moon #5 (1962), Forbidden Worlds #104 (1962), Five-Score Comic Monthly #64 (1963), Unknown Worlds #41 (1965), Amazing Stories of Suspense #162 (1977), Sinister Tales #183 (1981), Amazing Stories of Suspense #200 (1982), Uncanny Tales #176 (1986), PS Artbooks Softee: Adventures into the Unknown #16 (2021), Adventures into the Unknown #3, Amazing Stories of Suspense #45, Sinister Tales #39
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