Secrets of the Unknown #75

When Blake crash-lands on a distant world, he’s quickly captured by telepathic beings who resemble ancient humans—only far more advanced. Terrified of being dissected, he’s instead subjected to a mysterious ray scan and abruptly returned to Earth, utterly unchanged and seemingly forgotten.

In the tense quiet of a rooming house, a thief finds himself unsettled by a new roommate—a psychologist who seems to know more than he lets on. When a mirror is secretly placed in the bottom of a trunk, the thief begins to see something he can't explain: his own reflection, watching back from the dark. Written by an unknown hand, the story unfolds with quiet dread, turning a simple room into a trap of memory and guilt.

In the face of annihilation, the people of Canopus Minor must choose just twelve to survive—until Sfeen discovers a way to shrink the entire population, turning desperate odds into a race against time to fit them all aboard the escape craft.

In "Fear Walks on Four Feet!", a man’s jealousy drives him to sabotage his partner and rival, only to be caught in a catastrophic accident involving a malfunctioning capture ray. When the device explodes, he vanishes—believed lost to time, though in truth it transformed a fossil into a living dinosaur, and his partner rose to wealth in his absence.