Creepy Worlds #3

When a young scientist photographs something extraordinary, a mysterious hurricane-force wind begins hunting him relentlessly—so he builds a steel shelter and lets it carry him straight into the storm's source. Floyd Baldwin finds himself transported to an alien world whose inhabitants have been spying on Earth through hurricanes, and he must use his wits to buy humanity the time it needs to prepare for their impending invasion.

In "The Globes That Vanished!", thousands of planet globes are mysteriously pulled into the sky, only to return with their land and sea patterns flipped—and inscribed with the chilling message, "The alternative to peace."

In "Lost in the Black Tunnel," three crooks seeking refuge in a carnival’s Tunnel of Love find themselves trapped not by the ride’s eerie atmosphere, but by shadowy figures claiming to be "bad men." As the tunnel’s darkness closes in, their desperate flight leads them toward the only light they can see—police waiting just beyond the exit.

In "Beelzebub!", a man driven by decades of obsession hunts for a forbidden tome said to enslave the Devil—unaware that Satan himself is walking beside him, eager to claim the book before he’s outmaneuvered.

In "The Rivals," two circus performers locked in a bitter rivalry find their deadly game escalating when one sabotages the highwire and the other drains the water from the barrel below the plunge—each determined to outdo the other, with lives hanging in the balance.

A crook named Evans breaks into a cemetery to dig up a corpse and retrieve $200,000 in stolen cash he'd hidden in the burial clothes—but when he opens the grave, he finds a stranger inside. As Evans desperately hunts through the cemetery's other fresh graves and finally confronts the undertaker, the truth about what really happened to the body he's looking for unravels in ways he never expected. This 1962 shocker from Creepy Worlds proves that the best-laid criminal schemes can come undone in the most twisted of ways.

A wealthy sculptor insists on dressing the city's statues against the winter cold, convinced they need protection from the elements just as people do—a conviction that lands him in police custody and raises troubling questions about what truly constitutes madness. When officers attempt to stop him from caring for a monument to General Grant, the situation spirals toward a shocking revelation that forces them to reconsider everything they thought they knew about the strange man's crusade.

A man walking alone in the dark is taken aboard an alien spacecraft by mysterious creatures—captured as a specimen for testing. The aliens, descendants of an ancient seeder race, subject him to rigorous examinations to evaluate humanity's potential, only to reach a devastating conclusion about Earth's future. This science fiction tale explores what happens when a world's creators return to judge their experiment.

Young Johnny Fletcher rushes home from the beach with an urgent discovery, only to find his family glued to television coverage of sea dragons approaching the California coast—and completely unwilling to hear what he has to say. As the military unleashes everything from machine guns to bombs against the unstoppable creatures, Johnny ignores all warnings and returns to the ocean, while the TV announcer witnesses an impossible miracle unfolding that may hold the key to what Johnny has been trying to tell them all along.

In "The Man with Two Faces!" from Creepy Worlds #3 (1962), a man whose appearance frightens others crafts a handsome mask to win the affection of a woman he admires. When he finally faces her, he finds himself torn between deception and honesty—until a moment of truth reveals a startling transformation.

A year has passed since Vassily Dovchenko vanished while fighting against czarist oppression, yet his grandmother, mother, and sister Natasha continue preparing his favorite cabbage soup each evening, clinging to hope that he escaped and will return home. When a figure finally appears at their door, the family's joy turns to something far more terrible as they realize the truth about what happened to him.