Amazing Stories of Suspense #88

In "Beware!!! Of the Little Toy Men!!", a frantic man claims he’s an alien seeding Earth with toy men meant to take over the planet—only one reporter dares to listen. When he reveals a wind-up key hidden in the man’s back, the truth begins to take shape, leaving the reporter and the reader wondering just how far the deception goes.

In a quiet moment of defeat, a frustrated inventor tosses his latest creation into the trash—only for a curious boy to pick it up and accidentally unleash its power. When the device disintegrates three men in a single, unintended burst, the boy has no idea what he’s done, but the world is about to change in ways no one could predict.

Inside the Fallout Shelter! follows a man who constructs a shelter for himself alone, only to be trapped inside when a false alarm sends him into panic—left with nothing but canned food and no way to open it, as the weeks stretch into a month of isolation.

In the year 2000, New York City is thrown into chaos as a frantic manhunt unfolds for a suspected plague carrier believed to be fleeing the city. As panic spreads, a young man is cornered at a transportation hub, only to be apprehended and stripped of his "plague"—a stolen museum handgun that, in the eyes of officials, symbolizes the return of war itself.