Amazing Stories of Suspense #145

In "Meet Mr. Meek! The Most Dangerous Man in the World!", a seemingly ordinary man discovers a mysterious formula that turns anything he touches into gold—except his friend Jo suspects the power isn't quite what it seems. As the transformation spreads, Jo begins to unravel a far stranger truth hidden beneath the glittering surface.

In "There Dwells a Dragon," a boy named Tommy accompanies his father to the zoo, where the boy’s imagination runs wild with tales of knights and dragons from his book. When his father steps through a mysterious mist, he finds himself in the legendary realm of Camelot—only to return with a chilling realization: the face of the hero in Tommy’s story is his own.

In "Kunga," two hunters track rumors of a monstrous gorilla terrorizing the jungle, only to uncover a creature far stranger than they imagined—alien in origin and bound by forces beyond brute strength. The story unfolds with quiet dread, turning a hunt into a revelation about what truly connects life across the stars.

In "The Man Who Played Dead!", a midget uses his small stature and a cunning disguise as a lifeless dummy to infiltrate homes and commit robberies. When his scheme turns deadly, the police capture him—only to lock him in a trunk, unaware that he’s still very much alive and trapped in the dark.

In "Propaganda," low-level communist worker Boris Grozny is sent to an African nation with a dangerous mission: incite unrest to save himself from exile in Siberia. But when his efforts awaken ancient forces tied to the land, he finds that some revolutions are best left unstarted.