Spellbound #20

In "I Planted the Seeds of Doom!", a space explorer stumbles upon a strange alien plant whose seeds he sells to unsuspecting buyers—only to later realize too late that the plants grow into terrifying monsters. With the creatures dependent on water, he must use that weakness to survive and stop their spread before they overrun the world.

In "The Edge of Madness," a man torn between his human heart and a monstrous other half finds himself locked in a deadly rivalry for the love of a woman—each side of him seeing the other as the true enemy. As the night deepens and the shift between forms begins, their shared body becomes a battleground where passion and fury collide in a desperate, knife-wielding duel.

In "Gorgolla! The Living Gargoyle!!," a student’s research trip to a hidden Tibetan valley leads him into a colossal stone cavern, where he encounters Gorgolla—a towering, ancient gargoyle from another world. Gorgolla reveals his kind arrived to conquer Earth, but when he activates the signal to summon his army, they arrive not to destroy, but to defend humanity, having grown devoted to the people they once planned to enslave.

In "Taboo! The Thing from the Murky Swamp!", a famous adventure writer stumbles upon a colossal alien creature stranded in a Brazilian swamp, its origins as mysterious as the fog that clings to the marsh. As the creature manipulates him into retrieving Earth’s scientific archives for its own dark design, the writer finds himself caught in a perilous game of trust and survival—where knowledge itself becomes a weapon.

In "Grottu, King of the Insects!", a journalist and an archaeologist uncover a towering, atomically mutated ant in the African wilderness—intelligent, formidable, and bent on commanding an army of insects to dominate the world. As the giant ant rallies his swarm, the two explorers must outthink him, turning his own forces against him with a clever, sweet trap.

In "I Was Captured by the Mole Men!", a subway train full of passengers is seized by a hidden underground race, plunging the city into panic. As police and emergency crews rush to intervene, the true nature of the subterranean beings begins to unravel—revealing a conflict rooted not in malice, but in misunderstanding.