Secrets of the Unknown #44

In a Near Eastern country, a local magician dazzles the crowd with his feats, but when unrest threatens to grow, officials summon a famed American illusionist to prove superiority. Morton the Magnificent Magician arrives with a show of unmatched wonder, leaving the people awestruck and delivering a message of hope—only to vanish without a trace, as word spreads that his plane never reached its destination.

A. A. Allingham has spent years resisting the pull of the purple door, its mystery a quiet torment. When he finally opens it, the world he knows unravels in ways he never imagined.

In "The Man from Nowhere," a reckless man’s attempt to summon a genie goes disastrously wrong when he botches the summoning circle—only to find himself transformed into a homeless beggar, all while the powerful being he summoned remains just out of reach.