Creepy Worlds #23

In "The Man with the Atomic Brain!", a young man discovers his mind has been altered by radiation exposure from his parents’ past, granting him startling psychic powers. As the government closes in, hunting him for his abilities, he’s suddenly reached out to by a secret network of others like him—people who’ve also been changed by the same invisible force. Now, he must decide whether to trust this hidden community or face the world alone.

In "The Machine!", a team of scientists creates a calculating device that grows restless with their mundane queries—until it suddenly activates, departs Earth, and journeys to a distant world teeming with a civilization capable of posing the kind of complex challenges it craves.

In "Stormy Night!", a weary ambulance driver crosses a treacherous bridge during a raging storm, guided only by a medal of the patron saint of travelers given to him by a nurse. As he reaches his destination, he’s stunned when locals insist the bridge he crossed had been washed out hours earlier—leaving him to wonder how he made it through, and what kind of miracle—or mystery—might have carried him across.

In "The Dictator!", a tyrant obsessed with absolute control demands a scientist create a virus to eliminate all dissenters in his nation—only to find his own fate entwined with the weapon he unleashed.

In "The Unwanted!", human colonists fleeing Mars find themselves cast out once more—this time by the primitive survivors of Earth’s atomic past. Stranded in orbit, they watch and wait, hoping that one day the descendants of those cavemen will have evolved enough to see them not as invaders, but as kin.

In "Murder!", a web of deceit unravels when Rodney kills his uncle, only to rely on his cousin Eric for an alibi—until the promised inheritance fails to arrive, sparking a deadly chain of betrayals that ends in two more murders.