Secrets of the Unknown #159

In "The Green Thing!, Part 1," a botanist’s experiment with a serum to amplify plant intelligence spirals into chaos when his test subject on a remote island turns malevolent, seeking global domination. Fleeing the threat, he applies the serum to a more advanced plant, hoping it might be the key to stopping the evil one—though its true nature remains uncertain.

In "Dear Reader: What Would You Have Done if You Were the… Worm Man," a spy known only as the Worm Man relies on shrinking pills to infiltrate enemy lines and steal secrets. When a sudden attack by a rat knocks him off his guard and he loses his growth pills, he's left stranded in his tiny form—forced to confront the consequences of his own ingenuity.

In the heart of a forgotten jungle, Craig stumbles upon a hidden city where its enigmatic leader, Igharo, conjures dazzling gems from nothing. Entranced, Craig takes the gems and departs, only to find them turned to stone and himself left broken, struggling to recover from the ordeal.

In "The Fantastic Menace of Mento the Mighty," a reclusive scientist unlocks a hidden psychic potential and spends years amplifying it through a self-designed machine, ascending to near-omnipotence. But when his trusted assistant turns against him, he's left stranded—his body weakened beyond repair, his powers slipping away as the device lies broken.

In "The Ghost of Grismore Castle!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #159 (1976), a prankster’s reckless joke turns deadly when he lures his friend into a supposedly haunted house—only to find the spirits are real. As the prank backfires, the truth of the house’s dark past unfolds, leaving one man shaken and the other watching from beyond.

In "I Found the Perfect Hiding Place!", a desperate burglar swaps his heist for a time-jump, only to wake up in a nightmarish alternate world stripped of human life—no help, no escape, just an alien landscape that doesn’t want him. The story unfolds in a chilling, isolated reality where survival means confronting what lies beyond the edge of known time.

In "The Alchemist's Apprentice," a clumsy medieval youth long mocked for his dreams of becoming an alchemist accidentally triggers a cosmic mishap during a moment of panic—sending him soaring to the Moon, where he’s crowned ruler by the moon people. The story follows his bewildered rise from outcast to unlikely sovereign, all before the consequences of his fumble can be undone.