Astounding Stories #182

In "Reprieve!", Hans Schneider, the former concentration camp commander, walks free after a shocking acquittal orchestrated by his enigmatic hypnotic lawyer, Kreugg. But freedom proves fleeting when Kreugg leads him back to the camp—now a haunting realm where the ghosts of his victims rise from the ashes.

In "He'll Go a Long Way," con man Boyce Haskell takes a fortune from the Old Gypsy—“you’ll go a long way”—and sets out to prove it, using borrowed money and shady deals to climb the ladder. When his friend Bill lands in jail after being drawn into a rigged apartment scheme, Boyce flees, chased by Bill’s furious wife onto an empty subway train—only to watch his fortune literally take flight, soaring above the Earth.

In "The Boy with Second Sight," a young boy’s uncanny visions put his family in peril when he warns his mother that his father’s car has crashed into a lake—only she doesn’t believe him until it’s too late to stop the tragedy. Written by an unknown author and illustrated by an unknown artist, the story unfolds with quiet dread as the boy’s fragile grasp on reality blurs with the terrifying truth of what he sees.

In "The Mountain Monster," a reclusive scientist in a remote European castle breeds a creature named Adam, feeding it the minds of kidnapped doctors in a desperate bid to perfect his creation. But when Adam absorbs not just knowledge but the doctors’ terror—fear of himself—he breaks free, fleeing into the storm-lashed mountains in a desperate search for escape. The story unfolds in chilling silence and shadow, as the creature’s growing dread becomes its own prison.