Creepy Worlds #163

NoMan confronts a series of baffling murders—each victim marked by no apparent cause of death—that lead him to an encounter with the mysteriously alluring Priestess Ankhara, who claims to be in danger herself. When NoMan discovers that Ankhara is far more than she appears, he finds himself caught between her hypnotic powers and a deadly secret that stretches back millennia. What began as an investigation into stolen artifacts and dead scientists becomes a desperate struggle against forces—and a woman—that defy ordinary understanding.

When extraterrestrial visitors from Antares V arrive at an Earth county fair in 1909, they're eager to make a good impression on humanity—and they believe they've discovered the perfect gift. After observing fairgoers laughing at distortion mirrors in a fun house, the alien scouts conclude that humans would be delighted to have their bodies permanently warped and twisted. Gideon Bean recounts this fateful encounter to a skeptical reporter on his 100th birthday, revealing a first contact that left Earth far from grateful for the aliens' well-intentioned offering.

In "I Dared Enter the Haunted Forest!" from Creepy Worlds #163, a wealthy man’s arrogance leads him deep into a cursed woodland, where the forest’s keeper reveals a chilling truth: the man was chosen not for his wealth, but for being someone the world would forget. The story unfolds with quiet dread, as the line between reality and another dimension blurs, leaving the fate of the man uncertain.

In "Sleep, You Fool!", Perry’s prank to upstage Bud backfires when he accidentally dozes off for two decades, waking to a world that’s moved on—only to find Bud and Joyce married. The twist lands with quiet shock, turning a jealous scheme into an unexpected reckoning.

Frank Masters, a renowned submarine photographer, discovers an impossible sight in the coral seas off Tarawa—a colossal clam shell that opens to reveal an entire undersea city inhabited by mysterious creatures. He manages to capture everything on film before the inhabitants flee and seal themselves away, but when he screens the footage for marine experts, they dismiss it outright as an elaborate trick. Now Masters faces the crushing reality that no one believes his evidence, leaving him stranded between the truth he witnessed and a world that sees only deception.