Chamber of Chills #13

In "When the Creature Escapes," a captured sea creature—trapped in a tank at an atomic testing facility—reaches out to the scientist who brought it there, trying to communicate through telepathy. But the man, convinced the creature is evil, turns on it with a gun when it escapes, hunting it down in fear. Only after the creature is dead do the scientists reveal its true purpose: it had shut down a runaway atomic pile, saving them all.

In "The Hex!" from *Chamber of Chills* #13 (1974), a man’s decision to remove old hex signs from his barn sets off a chain of unsettling misfortunes, despite his wife Jo’s warnings. As his health declines and his skepticism hardens, a sudden turn of fortune brings him a lottery win—only to find her already painting a new symbol on the barn, as if she’d known all along.

In "Trapped by the Little Men!", a man is abruptly awakened by tiny, insistent figures who claim he must come with them—only to realize, in a flash of dawning horror, that his ancestor was Gulliver from "Gulliver's Travels."

In "Honest Abe," a humble doctor with just five dollars in his pocket pleads with a wealthy landowner to spare his charity clinic, only to find the bill he hands over has magically transformed into five thousand dollars—leaving him stunned and the future of the clinic uncertain.