Creepy Worlds #28

In "I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, the Living Demon!", a lazy village outcast stumbles upon a terrifying truth: a gaseous alien is using a dam’s water to take form and terrorize the countryside. With the sea just beyond the hills, he races to sabotage the dam’s pass before the creature escapes, risking everything to stop it—only to be locked away for the crime of stealing dynamite.

In "The Haunted House!", two fugitives take refuge in an old house, using ghostly disguises to scare off curious children. But as strange, otherworldly noises echo through the halls, they realize the house is haunted by something far beyond their understanding—and now they’re running from the very shadows they tried to control.

In "One of Our Spacemen is Missing!", a reckless space explorer ventures beyond caution, dragging his crew into a tranquil alien world that hides a terrifying secret. When the entire party vanishes without a trace, only the more cautious of the two leads remains to uncover the truth—before the same fate claims him.

In "I Met the Thing on Midnight Island!", a lone sailor stumbles upon a desperate note from a castaway on a remote island, only to find himself face-to-face with a mysterious, otherworldly creature. As an alien ship descends from the sky to retrieve the being, the sailor confronts the chilling truth: the so-called castaway was never human.

In "Beware of the...Robots!", a disillusioned factory worker channels his frustration into fiery essays against the machines replacing humans, only to find his voice echoing across the nation. As fame grows, he begins to question whether his anger was truly justified—or if the robot that took his job was, in fact, the one who set him free.

In "Those Who Lurk Below!", a cruel jailer torments his prisoner with a mysterious book claiming that an alien civilization fled beneath the Earth to escape surface devastation. When the prisoner discovers the book and believes its tale, he uses a forgotten machine to descend into the hidden world below—where he is welcomed as a long-lost kin. The jailer, left behind, spends his remaining years in vain pursuit of another working digger, never knowing what became of his captive.

In "I Travelled Thru Time!", a foreign spy narrowly escapes capture by vanishing into the past, only to awaken in the 18th century—where he discovers he’s now trapped in the body and fate of Benedict Arnold, facing a destiny far darker than his own.

In "The Monster in My Cellar!", a science fiction writer pushes his imagination to the limit, only to find his fictional creation has stepped out of the page and into his own home. Trapped in his cellar with the thing he conjured, he must rely on sheer will and creativity to survive—before his story becomes his final chapter.

In "I Fought the Tyrannosaurus," a young couple on a remote African safari stumbles upon a mysterious dinosaur egg—only to awaken a terrifying predator from prehistoric times. As the hatchling grows into a fearsome tyrannosaur, the local villagers flee in terror, leaving the couple to face the beast alone.

In "When the Earth Vanished!", a group of tiny alien invaders, convinced Earthlings have gone into hiding, launch their ultimate bomb in a desperate bid to eliminate the threat—only to accidentally obliterate a boy's ping pong ball and themselves in the process. The story unfolds with a mix of sci-fi absurdity and sudden, explosive consequences, all centered around the boy and his innocent game.

In "I Lived a Million Years!", a ruthless Asian tyrant, driven by fear of nuclear war, drains his people to power a suspended animation machine, plunging himself into a million-year slumber. When he awakens, he finds Earth transformed—abandoned by humanity and reclaimed by a harsh, untamed wilderness.