This Is Suspense #23

A hand-picked pilot guides humanity's first interplanetary spacecraft through the heavens, but a catastrophic mechanical failure threatens the mission before it's even truly begun. As critical systems fail and the ship risks plummeting back to Earth, the man at the controls must fight to save not just his own life, but mankind's greatest achievement. The story delivers high-stakes space drama that captures the nail-biting tension of the early atomic age.

Young medical student Harry Jekyll harbors a dangerous obsession: what if a potion could split a man into two separate selves, freeing him to indulge his darker impulses while his respectable identity remained untouched? After years of secret work in his laboratory, Jekyll's formula succeeds—unleashing the cruel, conscience-free Edward Hyde into the gaslit streets of London, where his brutish encounters begin to threaten everything Jekyll holds dear.

Among a traveling gypsy band, Aergutt—a dwarf shunned and mocked by his own people—harbors a dangerous obsession with Zelitta, the one person who treats him with kindness, unaware that she loves another man named Forimand. When jealousy and wounded pride drive Aergutt to a terrible act of violence, the consequences prove far more devastating than he could have imagined.