Strange Suspense Stories #60

In a cosmos where the ruthless criminal Cabo can inhabit any body he chooses, Marshal Tim O'Rell and his Earth cruiser squadron wage a desperate hunt across the universe—but discovering the enemy's true identity becomes nearly impossible when he could be wearing anyone's face. As paranoia spreads through the ranks and trusted officers turn against each other, the crew must find a way to expose the shape-shifting invader before Cabo uses their own ships to strike at Earth itself.

Big Jim Hammond lives for practical jokes—the meaner the better—and Halloween is his season to shine with elaborate costumes designed to terrify. As his pranks escalate and reality blurs, Jim becomes increasingly drawn to the darkness, haunting graveyards and delighting in the genuine fear he provokes in unsuspecting victims. What begins as harmless trickery takes a sinister turn in this tale of a joker who crosses a line he can't uncross.

When Helen Raney snaps up an impossibly cheap car, she quickly discovers it has a mind of its own—literally. Mike Kurek sets out to find his fiancée and ends up trapped in the same sinister vehicle, which carries him straight into the clutches of Dr. Myldeau, a sinister alien conducting a terrifying experiment on kidnapped humans. As the good doctor's plan to mentally enslave an entire planet unfolds, the police close in on his remote-controlled operation.

A father's talent for spinning bedtime tales spirals into something far more unsettling when the stories he tells his young son, Billy, begin to blur the line between imagination and reality—and a creature from one of his nightmares may be more than just a dream. John Reis discovers that his gift for vivid storytelling comes with a terrifying cost when the two-headed Glip he invented starts to feel uncomfortably real.

In "The Two-Headed Glip," a quiet bedtime story from *Strange Suspense Stories* #60, John Reis shares a tale of a peculiar, two-headed creature that haunts his dreams—only for his son Billy to unexpectedly defend the beast when it appears in his own. As the line between dream and reality blurs, strange signs begin to surface in the waking world, hinting that the glip might be more than just a story.