Creepy Worlds #36

In the silent void of space, a damaged passenger yacht strains under the weight of dwindling resources, forcing a desperate choice: one must die so the rest can live. The captain, playing a dangerous game of deception, lies about survival odds to expose who among them is willing to sacrifice another—testing loyalty, fear, and the true cost of self-preservation.

In "I Come From the Sky!", a stranded communist agent in 1964 Africa finds himself at the mercy of a mysterious tribe who live behind a massive wall, guarding against a monstrous threat they believe comes from beyond the sky. With only a lighter and one bullet, he must play the part of a sky-god to survive—though the real danger may not be the beast outside the wall, but the lies he’s forced to tell.

In "I Was a Victim of Venus!", a desperate criminal, sickened by an irradiated diamond stolen from Venus, races against time to find a cure. With no doctor in sight who can help, he makes a fateful choice—targeting a random victim for money—only to realize too late he’s killed the one person who could save him.

In "You Can't Change the Past!", a scientist's groundbreaking time machine becomes a weapon of unintended consequence when his envious assistant knocks him out and steals the device, eager to claim the glory of a historic journey. But the past proves unforgiving—trapped in a moment he can no longer touch, the assistant finds himself a ghost, powerless to change anything he once longed to alter.

In "Frankie's Fast Ball!", a young boy with newly awakened abilities struggles to channel his extraordinary strength and speed—gifted by his parents' radiation exposure—into something as simple as playing baseball. When his fastball accidentally punches a hole through a tree, he realizes his powers might be too much for the game he loves, especially when even a catcher could be in danger.

In "My Fatal Mistake!", a man haunted by obsolescence must service the very computer that replaced him—locked in a sealed room where time is measured in minutes and air in seconds. When he decides to sabotage the machine to prove his worth, he doesn’t realize the cost of his desperation could be his own life.

In "Call Her...Medusa!", an alien agent from the ancient gorgon race arrives on Earth to scout for an invasion—only to find her powers of petrification useless when she encounters a pair of blind men. Though she fails to turn them to stone, her confusion leads her to a startling realization: Earth’s humans may not be the vulnerable prey she expected. The story unfolds with quiet tension as the alien grapples with a world she doesn’t understand, setting the stage for something far more complex than conquest.

In "Frederick Fenton's Future!", a wealthy and self-assured man uses his fortune to construct a time machine, determined to steal the secret of eternal life from the distant future. His journey takes him to a world where humanity has abandoned Earth for a paradise planet, leaving behind only silence and the ruins of a civilization that no longer needs him.