Tales of Suspense #12

In "I Alone Know the Dread Secret of Gor-Kill, the Living Demon!", a young man named Hans Grubnik discovers the terrifying truth behind a mysterious gaseous entity known as Gor-Kill, which has taken form within a village dam. As the alien prepares to unleash its presence upon the sea, Hans must act fast—risking everything to sabotage the dam’s pass with stolen dynamite, even as his desperate plan lands him in prison.

Pierre, a prisoner in a remote cell, stumbles upon a mysterious book claiming that an alien civilization has retreated beneath the Earth to escape a dying surface. When he discovers a working digger and follows the book’s clues, he ventures into the depths—only to be welcomed by the very beings the story describes. Meanwhile, his sadistic jailer, Kragok, spends years in futile pursuit of the same passage, haunted by the belief that the truth lies just beyond reach.

A science fiction writer, desperate to impress his editor with the ultimate monster tale, finds his imagination has gone dangerously real—when the creature from his latest story claws its way into his cellar. Trapped between his own mind and the nightmare he created, he must outthink the thing he conjured before it consumes him.

Rick Jordan stumbles upon a desperate note from a castaway on Midnight Island, only to find himself face-to-face with a creature that defies explanation. When an alien ship descends to reclaim it, he realizes the truth: the so-called castaway was never human.