Unusual Tales #26

Jonathan Smith's obsession with speed has driven him from bicycles to hot rods to Air Force jets—each vehicle faster than the last—until he's court-martialed for pushing experimental fighters beyond their limits. Resigned and determined to prove himself, he retreats to a remote New Mexico desert basin with a sergeant and builds an experimental aircraft designed to break the sound barrier and fly faster than light itself. When Smith takes the craft on its maiden flight, he achieves speeds the Air Force generals monitoring him have never witnessed—but what happens next leaves everyone wondering if he'll ever return.

Geoffrey Slater finally gets proof of what he's long believed—after fourteen years of watching the skies, a mysterious stranger gives him special glasses that reveal flying saucers invisible to the naked eye. But when Slater's son takes the glasses and disappears, the father discovers that the visitor and his saucers are only part of a far stranger reality lurking beneath the earth itself.

When Brother Beano hypnotizes Amelia Harron at a party, she finds herself transported to a futuristic city four and a half centuries in the future, where she meets a man who awakens feelings she's never known before. After awakening from the trance with memories of a love that felt achingly real, Amelia discovers that some promises transcend the boundaries of time itself. This science fiction tale spins a romantic mystery that lingers long after the final page.

Jack Beckett’s new pocket watch sets off a series of chilling nightmares that blur the line between reality and madness. In them, he sees a man planning a murder, his only clue a mysterious figure with ties to a past that may not be entirely human.