Spellbound #21

In "I Am Dragoom! The Flaming Invader!", a blazing alien menace descends upon Earth, inciting panic with its fiery presence. When all else fails, a clever movie director steps in, using the power of special effects to stage a dramatic fake confrontation with police from Vulcan—turning the monster’s own fear against him.

In "Fangs of the Monster," a ruthless hunter's obsession with hunting a sea monster leads to a terrifying reversal of roles. Trapped and hunted in turn, he discovers the creature is no mindless beast—its telepathic voice taunts him with chilling clarity, leaving him alive but broken, doomed to carry a truth no one will ever believe.

In "The Thing Called...It!", a scientist's ambition spins out of control when his creation—a being designed to eliminate a rival—defies its programming. As the townspeople turn on the creature, its mind finds a shocking new home: the body of its creator, who meets a fatal end. Now free to live as a man, the thing must navigate a world that once feared it, with its past and purpose forever changed.

In "Beware the Hands of Hundu," a boastful painter is handed enchanted paints by a gypsy, promising he can bring his creations to life. With reckless ambition, he uses them to exact revenge on a former lover, but soon finds his power spirals beyond control—until the very art he conjures turns against him.

In "The Tunnel of Horror," a desperate bum stumbles upon a valuable ring while scavenging the beach, leading to a violent clash with his fellow wanderer. After the murder, he tries to reinvent himself by approaching a former fairground partner, only to be met with suspicion and fear. When the partner sends the police to scare him off, the man flees into the eerie Tunnel of Horror—seeking answers, or perhaps a final reckoning—only to vanish into its depths.

In "Beware!! The Ghosts Surround Me!!", a fugitive seeks refuge in an abandoned house, only to be confronted by spectral beings from another dimension. Though they cannot harm him, the aliens phase him into an immaterial state—trapping him forever between worlds.

In "I Saw Droom the Living Lizard!", a scientist's ambitious growth serum goes wildly off track when a tiny exotic lizard is accidentally doused in it, swelling into a colossal creature that terrorizes the countryside. As the military struggles to contain the beast, they send it hurtling into space—where it freezes in the void, drifting for eons before finally returning to Earth as the planet’s first dinosaur.