Amazing Stories of Suspense #217

In "My Touch Means... Doom!", a desperate man plots to rob his bank to fund his wife’s life-saving surgery—only to be undone by a chilling vision of himself turned lethal to the touch, a hallucination that feels all too real. The new guard, a psychiatrist hypnotist with unsettling power, may be the key to the terror gripping the thief, but the line between mind and reality blurs in ways no one can predict.

In "The Terrible Time Machine!", a scientist’s desperate journey through time to ancient Egypt takes a bizarre turn when he encounters a version of himself—only to wake up with no memory, leaving behind a dreamer in the sands who swears he lived the impossible. The story unfolds with a haunting blend of mystery and science fiction, where past and present blur in a single, unforgettable moment.

In "I Made Time Stand Still," an inventor discovers he can halt time—leaving himself the only one who can move. With that power, he steals from the frozen world around him, convinced no one can see or know. But when time resumes, he learns too late that everyone was aware of his actions all along.

In "Home Is Where You Find It!" from *Amazing Stories of Suspense* #217, Ralph Benton grapples with doubt as Professor Dalton helps him uncover a deeper truth—what we know in life may have roots in something older, something forgotten. As Ralph confronts the echoes of the past, he begins to see that Kathie’s words, once dismissed, might hold a deeper, undeniable truth.