Creepy Worlds #60

Jeff London, a lens designer obsessed with creating the impossible—a single lens with infinite depth of focus and telescopic range—travels to Hollywood seeking inspiration from the notes of Arthur Winterling, a vanished optical engineer. There he meets Winterling's daughter Helen and discovers that her father's experimental lens has trapped him in time itself, forcing Jeff to uncover the camera's mysteries before he and Helen fall victim to the same strange fate. With danger and wonder waiting on both sides of the Minus-Zero Lens, Jeff must find a way to survive the past and rescue a man lost between moments.

When physicist Mark Cawley receives a mysterious hourglass from his dying colleague Elsa Wagner, he learns a legend spanning centuries—that the ancient artifact can reverse time by one hour to save those destined for greatness, from Alexander the Great to William Shakespeare. Now Mark himself works desperately on a revolutionary rocket fuel that could transform space exploration, but when disaster strikes his laboratory, his wife Celia must decide whether to trust an impossible myth to save her husband's life.

Explorer Eric Masterson becomes obsessed with the tragic fate of Flora Dunning, a legendary woman explorer who vanished in Africa's mysterious Maremba District nearly a century earlier. Determined to discover what happened to her, he mounts a dangerous expedition into the forbidden territory—only to encounter hostile natives, ferocious animals moving with uncanny military precision, and evidence of a sinister intelligence controlling the jungle itself. As Masterson pushes deeper into the taboo land, he uncovers clues that suggest something far stranger than mere wilderness awaits him.

In "The Old Man of the Sea!" from *Creepy Worlds* #60, the desperate Marius Dodd seeks the advice of the charlatan Cosmo Filch, weighed down by the crushing presence of the sea god Ekali after stealing a sacred diamond. As Filch convinces Dodd that his suffering is born of guilt, the man surrenders the gem—only to find himself suddenly overwhelmed by the same unbearable burden.

Greg Chalmers wins the Mr. Universe title and lets the fame go straight to his head, straining his engagement to Doris Blake—until mysterious beings from across the galaxy abduct him to face trial before a Universal Tribunal that takes his boastful title far more literally than he ever intended. Stripped of his arrogance through a series of humbling contests against champions from every planet in the solar system, Greg must reckon with what it truly means to be the best.

In "The Girl with the Evil Eyes!", a man discovers a voodoo amulet that grants visions of the future, only to wake from a terrifying dream where his brother is set to marry a woman whose charm hides a deadly intent. As the dream begins to unfold in real life, the man watches helplessly as events mirror his vision—his brother introduces him to the girl, and the tension mounts. The story ends with the brother standing at a crossroads, the weight of the moment hanging in the air, leaving readers to wonder what he’ll do next.

Three geologists—Anson, Henning, and Jarvis—prospecting for uranium in a remote canyon fall asleep and experience identical, inexplicable dreams about a covered wagon train and a man named Blenko, all waking in terror at the same moment. When they consult Professor Marsh, an expert in both psychic phenomena and Western history, he reveals that Blenko led a wagon train through that very canyon in 1850 that vanished without a trace—and a discovery at the site confirms a tragic truth about what happened there.