Forbidden Worlds #56

Daniel Dunglas Home was born in Scotland in 1833 and brought to Connecticut as a boy, but by his teens he claimed an extraordinary gift—the ability to communicate with spirits and move objects through sheer will. This one-page account traces Home's rise from a curious young man who astonished his peers at a party in 1850 to a wealthy spiritualist whose uncanny feats of levitation and materialization baffled investigators for decades, even as skeptics insisted he was nothing more than an elaborate charlatan. The story leaves it to you to decide: was Daniel Dunglas Home a genuine medium or history's most convincing fraud?

In "Jockey on Future!", a down-and-out jockey takes on the challenge of riding the undefeated racehorse Future, known for winning every race. When gangsters pressure him to throw the Kentucky Derby, a mysterious cloud reveals the grim consequences of betrayal—sparking a choice that could change everything.

Two astronomers pick up a mysterious television broadcast from an unknown source—featuring an unfamiliar language, strange music, and instruments never heard on Earth. When experts from around the world can't identify the transmission's origin, Frank Anderson and Jim face a startling possibility: the signal may be coming from beyond our planet, setting them on a quest to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the cosmos.