Forbidden Worlds #70

When Alan and Lois Barset can't find summer lodging anywhere else in New Hampshire's mountains, they settle for a suspiciously cheap old house that's stood empty for 75 years—and a neighbor's grim warning that families always flee in terror. A ghostly presence soon makes itself known, and as unexplained events escalate, Alan's skepticism clashes with Lois's growing dread, threatening to tear them apart just when they need each other most.

In "Beyond the Reach of Time!", Tom returns from war a changed man—polite to Madge but distant, his heart no longer with her. As the years pass and he remains ageless, a visit to Doctor Balsom unlocks a buried memory: a moment in wartime England, a love lost in the blast of a bomb, and a name—Gloria—long forgotten. When she finally appears, the past and present collide in a moment of reunion that will test the very fabric of time itself.

In "Doctor Falsom's Discovery!", a curious scientist’s experiment with a mysterious lump of quartz unleashes an unexpected power—making inorganic objects vanish. When his tests reveal the stone only affects non-living matter and can't be replicated, Falsom calls a scientific meeting, only to find his colleagues urging him to surrender it. As he flees home, a foreign spy closes in, and chaos erupts when two FBI agents arrive—just as the quartz shatters, splitting into two pieces that destroy each other.

In "Story of a Miser!", Mark Brinkley’s lifelong obsession with wealth is tested when he falls from a ladder and is transported through time by the ghost of his ancestor, Wayne Brinkley. Guided through pivotal moments in history, Mark attempts to profit from each era—only to be thwarted again and again, each failure revealing the true cost of greed. As the journey reshapes his understanding of value, he begins to see the life he’s been missing, and when he wakes, he finds himself changed—ready to finally ask Eleanor to marry him.