Strange Suspense Stories #70

A ship captain's greed nearly destroys his vessel on a cursed reef in 1891—and seventy years later, his wealthy descendant Josef Barcos finds himself drawn back to the same treacherous waters with a mysterious woman who questions whether his grandfather's restless spirit still haunts Lucifer's Ledge. As strange forces threaten Josef's yacht and his dark family secrets unravel, he discovers that some sins exact a price far beyond death itself.

Novelist Shelby Noor has discovered a lucrative secret: the crimes he describes in his bestselling books seem to occur almost exactly as written, making him a publishing phenomenon—but Detective Chief Howard Leeds and others begin to suspect the author knows far more than he should. When Noor's next manuscript details an audacious museum heist involving experimental weapons and a mastermind's flawless escape plan, an editor at his publishing house decides to rewrite the ending to teach the arrogant writer a lesson, setting the stage for a collision between fiction and reality that neither may have anticipated.

Little Eddie White's restless nights take a strange turn when his father reads him a bedtime story about a one-eyed giant and flying crocodiles—only to discover that Eddie's nightmares may be far more real than either of them bargained for. As father and son find themselves drawn into the very tale being read, they must survive an encounter with a vengeful creature and its monstrous servants. When morning comes, the line between dream and reality becomes disturbingly blurred.

Dr. Jon Szabo perfects his time machine after a lifetime of sacrifice, but a head injury transforms him from a dedicated scientist into a man obsessed with wealth—leading him to build an invisibility suit and rob a bank to claim what he believes the world owes him. Using his invention to escape to the future with his stolen fortune, Szabo discovers that the world he's fled to operates under very different rules than he ever anticipated.