Tales of the Unexpected #9

Harvey Hacker stumbles upon a mysterious gambler whose dice seem to defy chance—until the man crashes his car near an atomic station. Snatching one of the strange dice, Harvey soon finds himself trapped in a night of growing dread as the cube begins to expand, threatening to crush him. But when scientists arrive, he realizes the true danger isn’t the object—it’s that he and his house are shrinking, caught in a strange reaction with the meteor’s radiation.

In "The Carbon Copy Man," a detective-mystery tale from Tales of the Unexpected #9 (1957), a magician’s illusion of teleportation begins to unravel when his hidden twin brother dies during a performance. As the truth behind the act surfaces, Frank Dorne finds himself entangled in a mystery far stranger than he imagined—only to discover a third brother, long thought lost, who may have been part of the deception all along.

Dr. Tom Morgan, anxious about his first surgery, finds himself drawn to a strange man who seems to promise no one will die—until the man’s vacation ends and Death himself returns to claim his due.

In "The Man Who Ate Fire," a young boy named Tommy Briggs stumbles upon a startling secret when he realizes that Edward Hermes, a seemingly ordinary man in his town, is actually an alien from Mercury sent to Earth to pave the way for an invasion. With help from his father and the iconic Statue of Liberty, Tommy races to uncover the truth before it’s too late.