Creepy Worlds #198

In "It Happened at Midnight!" from *Creepy Worlds* #198, a writer’s imagination blurs with reality when a man vanishes at midnight—only to find himself pulled into the same eerie scenario he’d just imagined. As the same event unfolds around him, the mysterious figures who take him claim to be FBI agents hunting an alien threat from another dimension.

In "The Man Who Watched," a visiting alien from Uranus named Tyssus observes a human couple’s quiet moments of connection, intrigued by their expressions of love and joy—emotions absent in his own culture’s rigid marriages. As he watches, he begins to question the values he once took for granted, drawn into the subtle, profound rhythms of Earth’s most ordinary relationships.

In "The Man Behind the Mask!" from *Creepy Worlds* #198 (1981), a masked philanthropist known only as the miller—his identity hidden behind a wooden mask—gives all he has to those in need. When his fortune vanishes and he faces starvation, his final journey to deliver one last gift brings an unexpected surprise: the very people he’s helped reveal they’ve known his true face all along. As he removes the mask in shock, the wooden features stare back at him—uncannily like his own.

In "There's No Tomorrow," a pirate captain's encounter with a gypsy who foretells his doom unfolds when his ship is caught in a storm and he’s arrested by the Spanish army—only to learn the date has shifted, leaving him questioning whether time itself betrayed him. The story’s twist hinges on a single, unsettling truth: the gypsy’s prophecy was delivered on Wednesday, but the captain’s fate unfolded on Thursday, a day that never came.

In the Dark, written by an unknown author and illustrated by an unknown artist, follows Ben Darrow, a sandhog working the final day of his shift, who’s secretly stashed stolen money in his lunchbox. When a sudden cave-in traps him deep in the tunnel, the darkness closes in—along with the weight of his choices and the silence of the earth above.