Creepy Worlds #9

In "Your Life for Mine!", a desperate scientist races against time to save himself, using a revolutionary device that swaps his present self with a figure from the past—just as a mob closes in. With no other choice, he exchanges places with an ancient alchemist, stepping into a world centuries removed from his own.

In 1944, a captured U.S. soldier, haunted by the cruelty of a German sergeant, finds himself pushed to escape after carving a wooden doll for his daughter. During the attempt, a voice from the doll guides him through enemy lines—then years later, he sees the same sergeant performing as a ventriloquist, and realizes the truth behind the voice in the night.

In "The Wrong Choice!", a pirate captain stumbles upon the lost city of Atlantis and is granted a single wish to alter his fate. Desiring strength to dominate its people, he wishes to be seven feet tall and as strong as a bull—only to discover the Atlanteans are far greater in size and power than he ever imagined.

In "The Man Who Went Too Far!", a scientist's experimental cosmic magnet pulls down a ghost-like entity from space—only for his partner, horrified by the act, to accidentally redirect the device. The unintended consequence sends a similarly dense, otherworldly creature surging up from deep within the Earth's core, setting off a chain of events neither man could have foreseen.

In "Under His Hat!", a celestial being known for quiet acts of kindness finds himself caught between duty and humility when a dying woman’s gentle request forces him to confront his own hidden nature—revealing more than just the halo beneath his hat.

In "No Answer," a lonely inventor believes his life's work has failed when his interstellar signal draws no reply—only to learn, too late, that his silence was heard across the stars. His machine, dismissed as a failure, unwittingly changed the course of an alien civilization’s war.

In "They Won't Die!", a man awakens to a terrifying truth: he and his closest friends can't be killed—no matter what. As they grapple with the sudden, impossible reality of their unending lives, they come to be known as the "other men," bound by a power that defies death.