Amazing Stories of Suspense #5

In "The Dummy and Me!", a struggling ventriloquist finds himself in a deadly game when gangsters come calling over unpaid debts. Trapped in an alley, he’s shot—only to realize too late that the puppet he’s been performing with has been pulling the strings all along.

In "I Found the Mad Universe!", a scientist peers through a revolutionary microscope and stumbles upon a hidden world existing at the sub-atomic level—only to realize it’s a mirror of his own, teeming with the same chaos and cruelty he thought were uniquely human. The discovery forces him to confront unsettling truths about civilization, scale, and the nature of violence.

In "When the Totem Walks!", two escaped convicts bring terror to a remote Indian tribe, only to face a terrifying reckoning when the chieftain unleashes ancient magic to animate a totem pole—sending it on a relentless pursuit back to the prison they fled. The story blends primal dread with a touch of supernatural justice, as the carved figure moves with eerie purpose through the wilderness.

In "The Return of the Totem!", two convicts fleeing the law stumble upon a forgotten Native American reservation, where an ancient totem they disturbed begins to awaken with terrifying power. As the totem unleashes a rampage across the reservation and into a nearby town, the chieftain races to stop it with a desperate potion, facing a sacrifice that may be his last.

In "Doomsday!", two scientists confront the terrifying consequences of their experiment when a deadly gas escapes, threatening to wipe out all life on Earth. As an unnatural wind carries the poison across the planet, one of them begins to question the nature of fate—and whether a higher power might be at work.

In "The Eighth Wonder of the World," four conmen scheme to make a fortune by digging up a giant and displaying it as a spectacle—only to awaken something far older and more real than they ever imagined. Their reckless ambition stirs a force buried beneath the earth, setting off a chain of events they never saw coming.

In "I Made the Hulk Live," a bitter scientist obsessed with creating a colossal mechanical form locks himself inside the very machine he built—trapped with only his stored supplies to sustain him as he endures a life of isolation within the giant robot's frame.