Creepy Worlds #234

In "The Imitation Man," a tyrant’s desperate bid to survive assassination attempts backfires when his scientist creates a perfect duplicate—too perfect, it seems, as the copy begins to dream of ruling in his place. With the original dictator returning to destroy the machine, he discovers it has been churning out endless copies, each now locked in heated debate over who truly holds power. As revolution sweeps the nation, the new government faces the strange task of deporting every version of the man they once feared.

In the thirtieth century, a cold, emotionless humanity rules the galaxy through conquest, sending an explorer to the next galaxy to find new worlds to subjugate. When he discovers a peaceful civilization untouched by war, he’s struck by a memory of a time when humans once sought peace—and chooses to lie to protect them.

Jo, a skeptical man with a mysterious past, offers fifty thousand dollars to anyone who can prove a ghost exists—but every so-called haunting has a logical explanation. As he investigates each case, his own unsettling connection to the supernatural begins to surface, hinting at a deeper reason behind his relentless skepticism.