Adventures into the Unknown #96

Steve Stanton is a rocket mechanic with big dreams—until he scrapes together his life savings to outfit an old ship and blast beyond the solar system as a space adventurer, crewing with two companions in search of fortune among the stars. When their journey leads them to a mysterious satellite, they stumble upon a prison holding something far more dangerous than treasure, and unknowingly free a criminal mastermind bent on conquest. Now stranded on an alien world, Steve must contend with the consequences of his reckless discovery and the threat Venor poses to two civilizations.

Jim Rivers, recuperating from a nervous condition, encounters what appears to be a violent Indian attack on a stagecoach while driving through the Arizona wilderness—only to watch the entire scene vanish before his eyes. Desperate to make sense of what he's witnessed, he seeks help in a nearby town, where a startling discovery about local history forces him to reconsider everything he saw.

Gerald Ansco, a traveling salesman from Knoxville, Tennessee, has been tormented by a recurring nightmare—one where his car loses control on a rain-slicked hill, a buzzard attacks him, and he plunges toward a ruined bridge and certain death. After a psychiatrist convinces him the dreams stem from his hatred of constant driving, Ansco quits his job and finds peace, until one fateful weekend when a detour forces him down an unfamiliar road during a downpour. As the nightmare's details begin to repeat themselves with terrifying accuracy, Ansco realizes his old dream is manifesting in reality—and he has only seconds to escape the fate it promises.

In 1958, a submarine officer named Edward Simmons walks into the editorial offices of *Adventures into the Unknown* with an extraordinary claim: he knows what really happened to the Santa Luisa, a Spanish treasure galleon that vanished at sea in 1563 with millions in doubloons aboard. Simmons recounts his wartime discovery of the wreck's location, his post-war dive to the ocean floor, and the fortune he finds waiting in her hold—along with a puzzling detail that defies explanation. What force destroyed the galleon four centuries ago, and what does Simmons uncover that changes everything about the ship's mysterious fate?

A glazier's deep affection for his mirrors takes an extraordinary turn when a late-night robbery at Mr. Manning's shop ends in tragedy—and then something impossible happens. When the thief Johnson is brought back to the scene, the detectives reveal that the mirrors themselves have captured an image of the entire crime, defying all logic and reason. It's a tale where craftsmanship and mystery converge in the most unexpected way.