Strange Suspense Stories #69

An average guy finds himself increasingly obsessed with bowling, spending more time at the lanes than with his girlfriend Leona, until his neglect costs him his job and puts his life in danger. When a massive bowling ball display threatens disaster at his new workplace, Sid must choose between the nightmare that's been haunting him and the people he cares about—and the consequences of his obsession finally catch up with him in "Thunder Alley," a tale that questions what we're willing to sacrifice for our passions.

Lieutenant Beaker descends into Diablo Caverns on assignment to evaluate Rex Subra's bid to open the caves to the public—but something sinister lurks in the darkness below. When a beautiful woman named Mana saves him from a deadly trap, the Lieutenant discovers Subra's true agenda and learns of an underground civilization whose home has been weaponized against them. What unfolds is a tense descent into Earth's depths, where trust, danger, and an unexpected alliance will reshape everything Beaker thought he knew about his mission.

When alien spacecraft release a truth-inducing vapor into Earth's atmosphere, humanity's carefully constructed lies crumble overnight—and the chaos threatens to tear civilization apart. As diplomats, politicians, and ordinary people are forced to speak nothing but honest words, scientists race to develop a chemical antidote before the planet's fragile systems collapse under the weight of unfiltered reality. "The Truth Tellers" asks what happens when deception is stripped away, and whether truth itself might be too dangerous for a world built on secrets.

A man haunted by his violent past in Korea receives an unexpected summons to a New York address, along with plane tickets he never asked for—a mysterious debt collector's invitation he can't refuse. Alone on an empty transatlantic flight, Regis begins to understand that someone has been waiting to settle accounts for years of sins he thought were buried. As memory and dread pull him back to the days when he was a merciless killing machine, he faces the terrible reckoning that awaits at 86 Barth Street.