Strange Suspense Stories #52

Ray Baldwin's Kansas farm lies barren after a mysterious wind stripped away his topsoil while his neighbors' crops flourish—until an impossible tornado sweeps him into a strange realm where the Master of the Winds confronts him with a terrible choice: accept his suffering so others may prosper, or condemn thousands to ruin for his own gain. When Ray chooses compassion over vengeance, he discovers the line between dream and reality may be far thinner than he imagined.

A chemist named Clyde Fenton discovers that a mysterious back room in a rented apartment amplifies his mental abilities to extraordinary levels, inspiring him to develop a method for controlling others' thoughts. When the building faces demolition, Fenton desperately fights to stay in the room, convinced he needs its strange power to complete his work—but circumstances force him out before his plans can come to fruition. Years later, the truth about that peculiar space emerges.

Flash Bonner was a brutal fighter whose body took too many devastating punches—until a strange, unseen presence emerges during his emergency brain surgery to guide him toward recovery and a better life. As his mysterious "other self" helps him heal impossibly fast, Bonner abandons the ring to pursue law, politics, and public service, climbing higher than he ever did in the boxing world. But the strain of success may exact a price neither version of Flash Bonner anticipated.