EC Classics #2

In "Down To Earth," a scientist uncovers a chilling truth behind a wave of inexplicable airplane crashes sweeping the nation—crashes that lead to a total ban on flight. When he realizes the cause lies not in human error but in alien interference, the extraterrestrials make their presence known by silencing him before he can warn the world.

In "Chewed Out!", a well-meaning farmer’s innocent ham radio call to the stars sets off a chain of events that brings the military crashing into his quiet life. When alien visitors mysteriously appear—only to be destroyed by strange, giant white objects—the truth behind their arrival is far more absurd than anyone expected. A single bite into a hotdog reveals a shocking secret buried in the brine of a roadside snack.

In "The Long Years!", a group of Earthlings exploring a desolate, war-ravaged Mars stumbles upon an aging scientist living in isolation with his young family. After the man dies suddenly, the visitors discover a hidden cemetery—and the chilling truth behind the family he’d lovingly recreated in metal and memory.

In "Given the Heir!", Seymour’s ambition takes a dangerous turn when a mysterious visitor from 2046 offers him a chance to become wealthy overnight—by altering the past. With a bold plan to change history, Seymour and his time-traveling relative conspire to eliminate a key ancestor, but the scheme spirals into something far more unpredictable.

In "Plucked!", a quiet suburban evening takes a terrifying turn when a young woman suddenly vanishes—just as the sky above her town grows unnaturally still. The alien harvest is underway, and no one remembers she was ever there.

In "Space-Borne!", a newlywed couple’s honeymoon in a spaceship takes a sudden turn when Enid’s health deteriorates during flight, forcing an emergency landing on an uncharted planet. With her condition worsening, Lon returns to Earth to fetch supplies, only to encounter a mysterious alien being—only to realize too late the terrible truth behind what he’s just done.

In "Bum Steer!", a group of humans is taken by grotesque, horse-like aliens to their strange world, where they're forced to eat endlessly under the aliens' watchful eyes. When a cowboy among them warns his companions they're being treated like livestock, they dismiss him—until the horrifying truth begins to unfold as they're herded into a sealed room.

In the year 2963, a lone explorer named Jerome Kraft arrives on a distant planet with only four years of supplies and a mission to document life. As he heals the sick and feeds the hungry with technology far beyond the locals’ understanding, the people begin to worship him as a divine savior. But when the high priest denounces his origins as heresy and demands he serve only the powerful, Jerome faces a choice that will echo across millennia. Long after his disappearance, a new generation of spacefarers discovers a civilization shaped by his legacy—its people bearing a symbol that tells a story of sacrifice and faith.