Forbidden Worlds #74

Meteorologist Dr. Stephen Simms investigates an impossible phenomenon—a sudden snowfall in July during a heat wave near Bella, Indiana—only to parachute into a Civil War battlefield where he rescues a mysterious woman from execution. As he learns her extraordinary truth, he discovers she's Veronica Ravelli, cursed centuries ago by the sorcerer Anton Mavellero to live through the ages, forever doomed to love a man who can never truly be hers—and Simms may be the latest victim of that ancient enchantment.

A mysterious old house at 1207 Pickett Lane drives tenant after tenant away with unexplained noises, until the realty firm tears it down and builds a modern apartment building in its place—only to discover the strange sounds return on the very first night. Could the source be the house itself, or something far more unsettling about the land beneath it? This eerie puzzle from *Forbidden Worlds* #74 (1958) leaves you to solve the mystery yourself.

When archaeologists Dave and Grace Ballard uncover an ancient Persian scroll describing visitors from the sky, they discover a date for the visitors' planned return—and it's now. As the alien ship arrives with plans that threaten all of Earth, Dave must think fast to turn the invaders' own technology against them before it's too late.

Robert Adams' dreary routine gets an extraordinary jolt when an optometrist named Dr. Yargo provides him with a pair of glasses that transforms his imagination into tangible reality—whisking him into the very worlds he reads about. As Adams discovers the glasses' astounding power, he ventures through different eras seeking the perfect place to truly belong, only to find that each reality—past, present, and future—comes with unexpected dangers and disappointments.