Unusual Tales #4

A coal miner's curiosity leads him down a hidden tunnel beneath an East Coast mine, where he discovers the impossible: the lost civilization of Atlantis, thriving in secret for twenty thousand years. When the King and Queen reveal their survival and their ancient grudge against the people of Mu, Joe finds himself caught in a conflict far older than recorded history—and forced to choose sides in a war that predates mankind itself. This science fiction tale explores what lies beneath our feet and what it means to carry a grudge across the millennia.

A woman who has been blind her entire life receives an unexpected offer of help from a mysterious doctor with an experimental device—one that promises to restore her sight. When she finally sees her husband of three years for the first time, a secret that's been hidden in the shadows of their marriage is brought into the light. "Shadows," from Unusual Tales #4, explores what we choose to believe about the people we love when we can't see them at all.

A man named Henry Valpin claims to have captured the sounds of the heavens and composed them into a composition called "Sky Music"—a harmony so powerful it puts people into an inexplicable sleep. When the narrator witnesses Valpin playing violin in a city street while police sirens wail around him, they become drawn into a strange and unsettling mystery. What Valpin has discovered in the cosmic melodies, and what he intends to do with his devastating creation, unfolds in this 1956 science-fiction tale.

John Marston wakes to find himself utterly alone in a dead city—no people, no sound, nothing but empty streets and abandoned cars. As days turn to weeks, the isolation gnaws at him, and he's forced to confront what it truly means to be the last living soul in a world of infinite material abundance. A haunting meditation on solitude that builds to an unforgettable twist.