Tales of the Unexpected #9
In "The Amazing Cube!", Harvey Hacker stumbles upon a mysterious gambler whose dice seem to defy chance—until a crash outside an atomic station leaves one of them in his hands. As the cube grows unnaturally through the night, trapping Hacker in his own shrinking home, he begins to suspect the truth lies not in the object itself, but in the strange radiation it carries. Written by George Kashdan and illustrated by Bernard Baily, with a striking cover by Leonard Starr, this 1957 tale of cosmic curiosity blends suspense and science fiction in a way that still feels fresh.
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Harvey Hacker meets a fellow gambler who has made his own dice from a meteor and with which he cannot lose. Following him, Hacker is able to snatch one when the other gambler crashes his car outside an atomic station. Planning to analyze the cube later, Hacker finds that it is apparently getting larger and larger through the night, nearly crushing him in his own house. But when scientists arrive from the atomic station, Hacker realizes it is he and his house that have been shrinking due to the combination of the radiation and meteor the cube was made of.
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