Secrets of the Unknown #190

In "You Can't Find Me!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #190 (1980), the crew of Patrol Ship XBY descends into chaos upon docking, wrecking the station in a frenzy. When a hidden diary points to alien brainwashing, suspicion swirls—until a sharp-eyed guard spots the flaw in the ruse: the impostor, unlike the others, remains unmoved by a female crewmember’s charm, a tell that cracks the disguise.

In "The Frightened Man," Rolf, a man on the run after stealing government bonds, stumbles upon an eccentric inventor who offers a strange potion capable of teleporting its drinker to any place they can imagine. As Rolf is suddenly thrust into scenes of his nation's devastation, he begins to see the true cost of his actions—and the fragile state of the country he thought he was fleeing.

In "The Last of Professor Hogarth," a wounded scientist named Hogarth makes a desperate gamble after an earthquake leaves him near death—offering to transfer his mind into another body. Taking the form of a dog, he must now navigate a world where his former protégé, Kalmus, is dangerously ambitious, all while pretending to be nothing more than an ordinary animal.

In "I Died Tomorrow!", Earl’s time machine draws both fascination and fear as he’s pressured to predict the future—until he sees his own death in a newspaper report, alongside Kay’s. Though the fire in his lab seems to confirm the prophecy, they survive, leaving the truth of the report—and the nature of time—deeply uncertain.

In "The Brute!", a mysterious enforcer hired by modern gangsters vanishes—only for Dr. Marcland to uncover a shocking truth: the Brute was actually Brutus, a warrior from ancient Rome, displaced through time and now returning to his own era to assassinate Caesar. The story weaves a chilling link between past and present, where today’s mobsters are echoes of the men Brutus once fought.

In "They Crawl by Night!" from *Secrets of the Unknown* #190 (1980), Ed stumbles upon a hidden network of underground creatures who beg him to lead their rise—but when he refuses their offer, he makes a desperate choice to seal them away. The story unfolds in chilling quiet, as a single man confronts an ancient, unseen threat he never asked to face.

In "What Stanley Saw!", a skeptical man named Stanley finds himself caught between disbelief and the impossible when he witnesses a spaceship—and then loses his job for claiming it. After tracking down the visitors, he discovers they're the Plutonians, refugees seeking a new home, and convinces his boss and fiancée to keep their secret so they can finally settle down. The story unfolds with quiet wonder, blending eerie suspense with a tender hope for belonging.

In the murky depths of a forgotten swamp, Kenyon stumbles upon a mysterious source of water that awakens unimaginable strength within him. But when his power begins to fade, Sheriff Taylor—forewarned and prepared—uses the same source to bring Kenyon down.