Creepy Worlds #157

In "I Know the Power of...the Genie!", a frustrated little girl calls upon a genie to teach adults a lesson after being spanked—only to find her wish spirals beyond control when the genie erases everyone. Left alone in a silent world, she soon realizes she misses them, and with a quiet heart, asks him to bring them back.

In "I Was Trapped Inside the Martian Maze," a lone steward finds himself facing a deadly puzzle set by enigmatic Martians, where every scientist before him has failed. With only a simple treadmill and quick thinking, he must unravel the riddle of a maze that defies logic—before time runs out.

In "The Man from... Tomorrow!" from Creepy Worlds #157, a man from the future arrives in the Roman Empire of 25 A.D. with grand plans to claim kingship, only to find his advanced technology useless without the power and infrastructure of his own time. With his gadgets failing and his claims unproven, he must rely on wit and will to survive in a world that doesn’t understand him.

In the silent red dust of a Martian outpost, a lone human soldier begins to doubt their own senses when a new arrival arrives—calm, efficient, and indistinguishable from the crew. When a fabricated report of a lost Earth contact triggers an unexpected tear from one of their own, the truth cracks open in a moment of quiet, devastating clarity.

In "The Frightening Fog," a sudden, all-encompassing mist blankets the globe, plunging humanity into fear as day turns to eerie twilight. Written by an unknown author and illustrated by an unknown artist, the story unfolds with quiet dread, revealing that the fog is no natural phenomenon—but a desperate, hidden shield crafted by unseen alien peacekeepers to protect Earth from a looming threat.

In "Whose Face Is in the Mirror?", a man’s ordinary morning spirals into dread when he sees a stranger’s face staring back at him from every mirror he encounters—each shattering upon contact. As he flees through the day, avoiding reflections, the line between reality and something far stranger begins to blur. When the elevator doors open, the face he’s seen appears in person, sending him into a panic—only to vanish as the elevator plummets into darkness.

In "The Haunted Paper!", a fugitive criminal starts a newspaper as a cover, only to discover his typesetter can foresee the future—turning headlines into real events. When the man refuses to reveal how the predictions work, the owner threatens to fire him, but the next headline warns of his own accident. Fearing for his life, the criminal turns himself in, only to realize the typesetter may have orchestrated it all along.