Uncanny Tales #30

When Esmerelda Lambie’s quiet life unravels under the weight of her husband Leonard’s humiliation, a golden curse ignites—bestowed by Mars himself, jealous of the Son of Vulcan. Now transformed by Midas’s touch, she’s drawn into a deadly alliance with the scheming Chopper Charlie and Zoloto’s sharp-tongued secretary Delora, as they plot to eliminate the god of war’s favorite. With the Giant Gladiator looming in the shadows and a mysterious goddess watching from afar, the line between vengeance and ruin grows thin.

In "They Called Me a Witch!", Amanda Dalton finds herself at the center of a town's fury when Evelyn accuses her of witchcraft, driven by old heartbreak and jealousy. John Redmond steps forward to defend her, only to be rejected when he offers marriage—leaving Amanda to face the storm alone, as the truth of the accusations begins to unravel in ways no one expected.

Captain Marston finds his ship mysteriously adrift in the Sargasso Sea—only to discover a stranded rocketship that’s both a threat and a lifeline, using the cargo of rocket fuel to pull them to safety.

In "Mission On Earth," a reclusive fantasy writer finds himself at the center of an otherworldly experiment when alien visitors arrive, seeking to understand human emotions so they can blend in undetected. As he guides them through the spectrum of feeling, he grapples with the weight of his choices—especially when teaching ambition and power, hoping these emotions will be their undoing.

In the shadow of the Berlin Wall, Karmit watches—waiting, plotting, praying for a hand across the divide. When he stages a murder to frame his partner, he turns to a distant soldier for salvation, only to find the man is frozen in stone, silent and unmoving.