Spellbound #41

In "Halfway Home!", a stranded scientist on a failing rocket faces a desperate choice: with fuel running out, he activates a device meant to halve the crew’s weight to make it home. Testing it on a monkey, he sees it shrink to half size—only to discover the horrifying cost when he tries it on himself.

In "Indestructible!", a desperate man flees to the past to escape a terrifying infestation, sealing himself in a time capsule only to find the present day can't open it. But the future bugs—already inside the time machine—break through, determined to overrun the present.

In the parched heart of a drought-stricken village, a power-hungry man clings to his grip on authority by guarding the secret location of a hidden spring—until the very storm he never saw coming threatens to wash it all away.

In "The Two-Timer," a man meticulously stages his wife’s death to look like suicide by gas, but his plan unravels when the police discover the gas had been shut off weeks earlier—leaving him with a dangerous alibi that’s impossible to explain.