Spellbound #27

In "It Crawls by Night!", a farmer’s experimental plant grows with terrifying speed under the cover of night, threatening everything in its path. When the creature’s relentless expansion leaves him cornered, he takes refuge behind a mysterious meteorite—only to discover the rock holds the key to stopping the rampage. With help from his son and neighbors, he races to harness the meteor’s strange power before the plant consumes everything.

In "The Crawling Horror," a grief-stricken man obsessed with science turns his sorrow into a dangerous experiment, seeking to enlarge germs for study—only to unleash monstrous creatures that grow beyond control. As his home becomes a battleground of towering, writhing horrors, he faces a desperate choice: destroy everything he knows or confront what remains.

In "Save Me From the Weed!", a seemingly ordinary gardener’s quiet dedication takes an extraordinary turn when a single snip of a strange, glowing weed unleashes a cosmic threat—one he may be the only one capable of stopping. The story follows his unexpected journey from humble groundskeeper to reluctant savior, as the fate of the world hangs on a single, precise cut.

In "Enter...the Robot!", a mine foreman's fear of being replaced by a new robot leads him to sabotage its control panel. When a cave-in traps him underground, he learns too late that the robot was designed as a rescue unit—and his only way out depends on fixing the very system he destroyed.

In "The Spider!", a young boy’s fascination with his giant spider spirals into something far more sinister when the creature begins devouring the neighbor’s animals—and then the neighbor himself. After the spider bites the boy, he undergoes a terrifying transformation, becoming the very creature he once nurtured.

In "The Return of Gargantus!", a new team of scientists awakens the ancient creature, now capable of surviving on land, as it sets its sights on dominating the surface world. With the son of the original discoverer determined to prevent another catastrophe, he uses his father’s bathysphere to lure the beast back beneath the waves—where a final, desperate electric charge may be the only hope of stopping it.

In "Never Trust A Martian!", a group of Communist spies scheme to stage a fake Martian invasion to sow chaos, but their plan takes a terrifying turn when the real Martians intervene—abducting the spies before they can expose the ruse. The story unfolds with a tense blend of Cold War paranoia and alien intrigue, where deception becomes a deadly game.