Creepy Worlds #189

In "The Mysterious Mr. P!", a famed clarinetist with a shadowy past finds himself ensnared by a repressive regime that demands he serve as a propaganda tool. When he refuses, he uses his music to lure his captors into the heavens, revealing a truth as old as legend.

In "He Came From Nowhere!", a desperate fugitive makes a desperate deal with a mysterious stranger claiming to be from the future—offering to swap lives to escape capture. What begins as a chance at freedom quickly unravels when the fugitive arrives in the future, only to be locked away by authorities who believe his new form is a clever disguise.

In "The Face!", a thief fleeing the cursed aftermath of stealing a ruby from an Indian Lama's temple finds the spirit's visage haunting every reflection, every shadow, every passing face. Desperate to escape, he leaps from a moving train mid-crossing, only to realize too late that the trestle bridge beneath him offers no refuge.

A man answers a phone call—just a single, desperate plea of "Help!"—and dismisses it as a prank, slamming the receiver down hard enough to shatter it. But on the other end, the call was no hoax: a tiny alien spacecraft, trapped inside the receiver, is suddenly free, its tiny pilot thrilled by the sudden release.

In "Seven Long Years," a former racketeer attempts to leave his criminal past behind, spending seven years living a quiet life after shattering a mirror as a symbolic break from his old ways. But when he returns to crime, the same act of breaking a mirror triggers a chilling repetition of fate—leading to a new arrest and a sentence that mirrors his past.