Strange Suspense Stories #67

Dr. Allan Reynolds is haunted by a recurring dream in which he meets himself, convinced it's a sign of madness—so convinced that he's pushed away the woman he loves, Debra, believing no future is possible for a man losing his grip on reality. When he finally tests the time machine he's spent his life building, he discovers the truth behind his dreams in a way that changes everything he thought he knew about his sanity and his future.

Mr. Reven arrives in a quiet city as an unremarkable newcomer, but he possesses a remarkable power: the ability to manipulate time itself and rewrite moments of fatal tragedy. As he witnesses the harsh fates dealt to ordinary people, he begins using his gift to intervene—saving a child from a rabid dog, a man from a fatal fall—but his merciful actions draw unwanted attention and spark a conflict between his desire to help and forces that demand he respect the immutable flow of destiny.

A stewardess aboard Captain Dahl's aircraft witnesses something inexplicable during a catastrophic storm—the captain speaks to an empty co-pilot seat as if someone invisible is flying the plane alongside him. When the crisis passes and they land safely, she learns that Dahl has been relying on a mysterious entity called Enejo for years, ever since a fateful encounter over Lake Modoc in 1951. As romance blossoms between the captain and his stewardess, Enejo's involvement in their lives takes an unexpected turn.

A scientist from Simsbury College crashes a television broadcast with a wild warning: alien invaders are infiltrating Earth through ordinary chicken eggs, and he's got the proof to back it up. When Dr. Radvitz demonstrates his theory to a skeptical Professor Jonnson by cracking open one of the suspicious eggs, things spiral spectacularly out of control—and the two men realize that nobody, not even the authorities, will take them seriously. As the creatures begin their escape, Radvitz and Jonnson find themselves alone in their fight against an invasion that's already begun.

When a young woman discovers her grandmother's old cookie jar during hard times, she finds it mysteriously filled with money whenever her family's need is greatest—but only if she doesn't look for it deliberately. As Elaine and her husband George weather illness, unemployment, and poverty, the jar seems to provide just what they need, until their fortunes improve and they pass the enigmatic heirloom on to those in greater need. A touching meditation on providence and the idea that true help arrives only when we've exhausted every other option.

An elderly man with an extraordinary gift becomes the secret genius behind a brilliant scientist's groundbreaking discoveries—his vivid dreams yield the solutions that elude even the most brilliant minds in Dr. Schilling's laboratory. But when a particularly demanding problem pushes Janus to his limits, both he and Dr. Schilling must confront the truth about who he really is and what he's been running from. A haunting tale of memory, identity, and the price of hiding from the world.