Adventures into the Unknown #98

Tom Robbins has finally perfected a revolutionary energy source after years of struggle, but when he turns to his old high school nemesis Henry Varga for funding, the ruthless financier sees an opportunity to achieve his ultimate ambition—becoming the first man to conquer space. Now Robbins finds himself aboard Varga's mammoth rocket, racing toward the stars with the man who's humiliated him at every turn, as tensions simmer between them and Marge Lowell watches from the sidelines. What began as a scientific quest becomes a dangerous voyage into the unknown, where pride, rivalry, and ambition collide in the vast reaches of space.

When John Delson's peaceful Nevada retirement is suddenly shattered by a mountain that moves overnight and jungle animals that materialize out of nowhere, he finds himself caught in the chaos caused by Dr. Ikobewati—an eccentric inventor from another dimension whose experimental Scrambler device is scrambling reality itself. As the good doctor tries to make amends for his "miscalculations," John and his wife must grapple with an invention that can rearrange anything from mountains to matter itself, leaving them to wonder what this bizarre visitor truly has in store for them.

A seaside holiday takes an uncanny turn when a young beachgoer discovers a mysterious inhabitant hidden inside an ordinary shell. As strange secrets emerge from the deep, the sea itself seems determined to guard what lies beneath its surface. "Inside the Shell" captures that classic 1958 twist of the unexplainable made tangible—and then snatched away again.

Adam Jones, field investigator for the Institute for Psychic Research, is called to a rental property in Carrtown, Pennsylvania, plagued by unexplained lights, music, and a phantom woman's voice—disturbances that have baffled the town for nearly a century. Determined to uncover whether the phenomena are an elaborate hoax or something genuinely inexplicable, Jones stakes out the house and discovers clues that lead him back through newspaper archives to a mysterious disappearance in 1875 involving the Mason family. What he unearths about Alice Wills and her husband Randolph may finally solve the riddle of the haunted house—if he can piece together what really happened that fateful night so long ago.