Forbidden Worlds #83

Dr. Jules Dorn was once a hesitant surgeon plagued by self-doubt, until the legendary Dr. Marek—his mentor and his fiancée's father—entrusted him with a parting gift: his own surgical gloves. Now, years later, Dorn has become a masterful physician, though whispers persist that something uncanny guides his steady hands. When a terrible accident brings a woman he loves to the operating table on a night when he's entirely alone, Dorn must discover whether Dr. Marek's gloves truly hold a power beyond superstition.

John Higbee carries on his family's military legacy when he ships out for World War II, fighting at the Battle of the Bulge—but when a mysteriously effective artillery shell saves his unit from a German tank, he discovers ammunition that shouldn't exist. Back home two years later, Higbee pieces together the impossible truth behind his ancestor's intervention.

Two scientists and their Eskimo guide pursue a mysterious radar signal into the Arctic wasteland, only to encounter Janos of planet Zylox—an alien scout whose crippled spacecraft has made an unscheduled landing. When the extraterrestrial reveals plans for an imminent invasion of Earth, Collins and Stone find themselves helpless under his mental domination, leaving their survival to rest in the hands of the one mind Janos cannot control.

When young Hosmer Petty survives a childhood boating accident caused by hungry seagulls, he blames the birds for every misfortune that follows—his father's death, his family's poverty, and eventually his beloved wife's passing. Decades later, now an aging, obsessed miser guarding a fortune hidden in a secret seaside cave, Hosmer discovers his granddaughter Mildred has fallen in love with a local fisherman named William who possesses an uncanny ability to command the very seagulls Hosmer has grown to despise. As old rivalries and supernatural forces collide, Hosmer's lifelong war with the birds of fate enters a dangerous new phase.