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Secrets of the Unknown#42
Cover: Dick Giordano

Secrets of the Unknown #42

· Alan Class · 1'- [0-1-0 GBP]
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Contains 13 stories
The Professor's Visitors
5 pp · Science Fiction
Country Road
7 pp · Fantasy
The Man Who Wasn't!
3 pp · Science Fiction
Second Chance
5 pp · Fantasy
Specimen
5 pp · Science Fiction
Algaroba the Aerial Artist
5 pp · Fantasy

In "Algaroba the Aerial Artist," a mysterious transformation leaves Walter Ostrander vanished—only to return as Manuel Algaroba, the world’s only acrobat capable of the impossible spinning twist. His sudden emergence stirs questions about his past and his strange, unexplained link to the late Pedro Bargalbo, the only other man to ever master the same gravity-defying move.

The Wizard from Scotland
2 pp · Fantasy
The Man in the Glass Cage!
5 pp · Crime, Science Fiction

In "The Man in the Glass Cage!", a disgruntled sound engineer unleashes a deadly experiment with sonic waves against a woman who rejected him—only to find his weapon turns against him when the very frequencies that failed her prove fatal to him. The trap of his own invention echoes in the silence between notes, where perception and reality fracture.

Dr. Saba's Surprise
7 pp · Fantasy

Dr. Saba's Surprise follows the uneasy partnership between Dr. Saba and Mr. Kort, whose elaborate séances have long been a show of trickery—until this time, when the line between performance and peril begins to blur. As their latest attempt to raise the dead takes an unexpected turn, a spirit may be stirring not to haunt, but to protect the widow of a man they once claimed to have brought back.

The Hide-Out
6 pp · Crime, Science Fiction
The Apparition
5 pp · Fantasy
Willie!
7 pp · Fantasy
The Living Monsters
1 pp · Non-Fiction, Animal, History

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Full credits

artist Bill Molno
cover pencils, inks Dick Giordano

Reprints

↩ Reprints Unusual Tales #2 (1956), Unusual Tales #6 (1957), Strange Suspense Stories #36 (1958), Strange Suspense Stories #38 (1958), Strange Suspense Stories #42 (1959), Strange Suspense Stories #43 (1959), Unusual Tales #19 (1959), Unusual Tales #27 (1961), Strange Tales #99 (1962)

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