Amazing Stories of Suspense #S[C]

In "The Last Man Alive!" from *Amazing Stories of Suspense #S[C]* (1977), Freddy Kruger, disillusioned with life on a distant space colony, fabricates a tale of a deadly plague to justify his return to Earth. Using the colony’s matter transporter, he escapes—only to discover upon arrival that he’s been quarantined, cut off from the world he thought he’d reclaimed.

In "They Prowl on Earth!", a Texas oilman thinks he’s gained telepathy after intercepting alien transmissions—only to stow away on a Mercury-bound ship, unaware it’s already returned home. When he wakes up on a distant world, he tries to rally Earth’s people against the invaders, only to realize too late that he’s not communicating with anyone at all.

In "No One Can See Me!" from *Amazing Stories of Suspense* #S[C] (1977), Jo, a professor’s assistant, gambles everything on a dangerous plan to sell his boss’s invisibility formula to a foreign power. After faking the professor’s death and driving to tell his friends the news, Jo is met with silence—his friends, annoyed by his behavior, are ignoring him on purpose. Panicked, he believes he’s truly invisible, and in a desperate rush back to the lab, he meets a tragic end. The truth? The formula never worked, and his friends weren’t ignoring him because he was unseen—they just didn’t like him.

In "It Can't Be Done!" from *Amazing Stories of Suspense* #S[C] (1977), a desperate scientist travels back to 1756 to stop a gunsmith from perfecting a weapon he fears will change warfare forever. Armed only with a handgun and poor combat skills, he’s quickly overpowered—then, in a panic, he hits the recall button without realizing the weapon he dropped may have just become the very thing he sought to prevent.

In "Someone Is in the Trunk," a thief living in a rooming house finds himself unnerved when his new roommate, a psychologist, sets a subtle trap—placing a mirror in the bottom of a trunk. As the man's guilt begins to surface, the reflection in the trunk starts to feel less like a memory and more like a presence. The story unfolds with quiet dread, where the line between mind and mirror blurs.

In "Child's Play!", a man obsessed with proving his genius spends years crafting a device from scavenged parts, only to summon a being from the fourth dimension. When he pleads to be taken to that realm, the visitor gently refuses, revealing the machine was never a gateway—but just a toy, a child’s plaything meant for amusement, not enlightenment.

In the scorched sands of WWII Africa, a German soldier stumbles upon a forgotten well said to hold the power of invincibility—only to find his fate tied to a single, overlooked wound. When American troops confront him, the legend of his near-untouchability is shattered in a moment of brutal irony, as the one vulnerable spot proves fatal.