Unusual Tales #28

A doctor's late-night house call takes a bizarre turn when he's summoned to a mansion to examine the seemingly deceased Mr. Korex—only to discover the mysterious man possesses no heartbeat, no skin pores, and pills of utterly alien composition. When Korex miraculously revives and transforms from a withered corpse into a vigorous young man, the doctor finds himself caught between his medical curiosity and the FBI's urgent pursuit of a suspect who leaves no fingerprints and no trace of his true origins.

When jet pilot Captain Kenneth L. Farron ejects from his damaged aircraft at 70,000 feet, he finds himself caught in a violent thunderstorm that tosses him helpless through the clouds—until he's mysteriously rescued by beings who reveal themselves as visitors from Venus. Farron awakens on an alien world where his rescuers share their observations of humanity and their concerns about Earth's capacity for destruction, leading to a conversation that will change his entire perspective on mankind's future. This 1961 science fiction tale blends aerial survival with first contact, asking whether advanced beings watching from the stars might ultimately choose to help or abandon us.

A advanced civilization emerges from nuclear devastation, but when they encounter mutant survivors, leaders make a fateful choice: exile two of the creatures to a distant planet to serve as a living reminder of war's horrors. Across epochs, as evolution reshapes the exiles' descendants into something new, their names echo down through the ages—transformed by time itself into something sacred, something familiar, something that might just explain humanity's oldest story.

A hunter in northern Minnesota spots something impossible—a massive saber-toothed tiger that shouldn't exist in the modern world—and his desperate warnings spark a desperate hunt through dangerous wilderness. When ranger Dave Martin and guide Paul Arroyan track the creature to a mysterious stone wall hidden deep in the forest, they uncover evidence of something far larger and more mysterious than any prehistoric cat. As the truth begins to reveal itself, the men find themselves face-to-face with wonders that no one back civilization will ever believe.