Creepy Worlds #56

Don Bradley thought his dreams of scientific glory were finished when he graduated as a botanist—until a tip from his mentor sends him toward space itself. When an expedition to the Moon finally launches, Don fights his way aboard and soon discovers evidence that the barren lunar surface once harbored something extraordinary: fossilized trees, and hints of life that shouldn't exist. What unfolds as he and a skeptical reporter venture deeper into the Moon's desolate landscape will challenge everything he thought he knew about botany and planetary history.

A hardened criminal and his crew escape prison and commandeer a hidden ship, only to discover an ancient idol with the power to conjure visions of the past—including their own. When greed tempts Toomey to pursue legendary sunken treasures across history, he learns that some voyages into yesterday come with deadly passengers. Created by Whitney, "Voyage Into Nowhere!" plunges readers into a tale where the past refuses to stay buried, and the greatest treasure may be survival itself.

During a turbulent Atlantic crossing in 1863, a passenger named Mr. S. R. Wilmot dreams that his wife Lucy visits him in his cabin—a vision so vivid that his cabin mate, Mr. W. J. Tait, swears he glimpsed her too. When Wilmot returns home, Lucy reveals an uncanny truth: that same night, consumed with worry over the storms at sea, she experienced a vision of her own crossing the ocean to find him. What begins as a curious coincidence becomes a haunting question about the power of thought and connection across impossible distance.

Melvin, a timid chemist, accidentally discovers a formula that transforms him into a powerhouse—but his newfound strength and the fame it brings threaten to cost him the one person who matters most. When Sally Winston calls him out for becoming a glory-seeking showoff, Melvin faces an impossible choice between the spotlight and the woman he loves. A touching science fiction romance about what really makes someone worth admiring.

A greedy antique dealer becomes obsessed with uncovering how an old sea captain crafts his exquisite ship-in-a-bottle models, and one night Mr. Cobb sneaks aboard the captain's vessel to spy on his work. What he discovers in that cabin will make him question everything he thought he understood about the captain's remarkable craft.

Charlotte Melanet, a deaf-mute farm girl born in 1563, was feared and shunned by her French neighbors—until mysterious events began to unfold around her. When wolves fled at her presence, when plague victims she nursed recovered miraculously, and when her fields alone remained fertile during a devastating drought, the townspeople realized that something far greater than superstition was at work, and their scorn transformed into love and wonder.

In "Dream World?", Fred Taylor’s quiet life takes a surreal turn when his imagination becomes a door to another realm—though the townspeople see him as lazy, they don’t know the truth. When their greed pushes him too far, Fred makes a daring choice: he steps through the dream and leaves the real world behind.

Betty Hanson's recurring psychic visions of an alien invasion from the planet Corydon seem like delusions—until a psychiatrist's strange reaction to her story reveals far more sinister possibilities. When Betty's insights catch the attention of Dr. Klaus Hesse himself, the stakes become terrifyingly real as the true nature of Earth's danger begins to unfold.

In "Wash-Out!", a desperate parents’ race against time to save their ill child takes a terrifying turn when a sudden storm cuts off their only route to help. With the roads vanishing behind them and the bridge they crossed now a ruin, their journey becomes a haunting test of hope and fear.

Frank Wheeler has spent forty-two years haunted by a single moment of cowardice—a train disaster where he failed to save Louise, the woman he loved—and that trauma has defined him as a timid, fearful man ever since. When he discovers an old pipe in a curiosity shop that resembles the one Louise gave him decades ago, he becomes compelled to smoke it, only to find that the smoke transports him into vivid scenes from his past. As Frank relives key moments from his life through these strange visions, he's forced to confront the choices and fears that shaped who he became.

Dr. Boles and his expedition team set out on a routine mission to study ancient cave drawings in Spain, only to discover a hidden chamber beneath the first cavern—one that contains a startling image of a mythological centaur drawn by a mysteriously ancient civilization. When they uncover a skeletal remains behind a loose rock, they come face-to-face with proof that the legendary creature was real, though time itself becomes their adversary.