Secrets of the Unknown #146

In "I Wake Up Screaming," a criminal desperate to escape his past tries to erase himself with plastic surgery and hypnosis, only to be undone when doctors craft a dream world where he must rescue the one he loves—only to scream out his true name in terror.

In "I Am the Menace from the Purple Planet!", a peace-seeking alien arrives on Earth with a simple mission—yet the humans, wary and fearful, attempt to hold him captive. When they discover they’ve only captured a robot, the alien quietly departs, his mission unfulfilled but his intentions clear.

When the clock strikes seven o’clock on the ten-year anniversary of a brutal pirate raid, the crew of the *Black Marlin* finds themselves haunted by the very ghosts they thought they’d left behind—victims of a long-ago massacre now seeking justice from beyond the grave.

In a war-torn France, a man whose quiet obsession with gargoyles takes on new meaning when a mysterious creature saves his life during captivity. Years later, haunted by memories and the scars of battle, he returns to the rooftops of his homeland—only to notice something impossible in the stone faces he once admired.

In "I Unleashed Monstro on the World!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #146, a traveling hypnotist’s attempt to control a giant albino gorilla goes disastrously wrong when the creature’s blindness renders it immune to his powers—leaving chaos in its wake. The story unfolds with a tense, creeping dread as the beast, unaware of its surroundings, becomes an unpredictable force of nature.

Jo spends the night in a storm-lashed lighthouse on the coast, only to witness a ghostly ship and spectral pirates materialize from the fog. When dawn breaks, he finds a life preserver washed ashore—marked with the name of the legendary Flying Dutchman.

In "The Man Who Lived Twice!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #146, a scientist’s experimental teleportation device erases memory upon arrival at a new location, offering a convict a chance to escape prison—on one condition. After the test, the man returns to his old life, only to find his former partner in crime claims to have been robbed by a stranger with no memory, leaving him to wonder if he’s the thief—or the victim.