Creepy Worlds #126

When a young botanist named Don Bradley desperately seeks a way to make his mark in science, he seizes the opportunity to join a historic rocket expedition to the Moon—but finds himself dismissed as useless by the project director until a sharp-tongued reporter named Leona Carr challenges his worth. Once on the lunar surface, Don discovers something that changes everything: a strange tree calling out to the expedition members, forcing him to confront the impossible existence of plant life where none should exist. What lies at the heart of this mysterious vegetation, and what does it want from the explorers who've invaded its world?

Frank Wheeler is an aging office worker haunted by a devastating moment from forty-two years past—when fear prevented him from rescuing his young fiancée, Louise, from a train wreck. When he discovers what appears to be the very pipe Louise gave him on that tragic day, sitting in a dusty curiosity shop, he brings it home and smokes it for the first time since that fateful afternoon, only to find himself pulled into vivid visions that blur the line between memory and reality. As Frank is drawn deeper into the pipe's strange power, he must confront the cowardice that has defined his entire life.

Dr. Whitney, a man of science who dismisses fate as mere superstition, accepts an ancient Egyptian incense burner as a gift from his old friend Averill Martin, curator of the Museum of Ancient Culture. When he lights the mysterious incense that evening, he's pulled across time itself by Hakim, a worker-of-wonders from ancient Egypt, who demands the doctor's surgical skills to save the poisoned ruler Akim-Anhemet. Faced with impossible circumstances and the weight of destiny itself, Dr. Whitney must choose between his rational skepticism and the very real crisis demanding his expertise.

Toomey and Benson, escaped convicts, seize the fast ship "Manta" and flee to remote islands to hide from authorities—until they discover a magazine article about the idol of Ampuna, a goddess whose worshippers claim she can recreate the past. The lure of the pearl-covered statue and its rumored power sends them on a dangerous voyage to claim the idol and use it to hunt down legendary treasures across history. What they don't realize is that meddling with the past comes with perils far deadlier than any prison break or police pursuit.

In "Dream World?", Fred Taylor’s quiet life in a sleepy town takes a surreal turn when his imagination becomes a door to another realm—though the townspeople only see him as lazy, not realizing he’s conjuring wonders from his dreams. When their greed pushes him too far, Fred makes the bold choice to step through that door and vanish into the world he’s always dreamed of.