Unusual Tales #45

In a quiet moment between worlds, Elgin Manley appears to his son Marc within the frame of his portrait, sharing the haunting truth behind his murder at the hands of Jerome Courtny—though how this revelation came to be, or what it means for the living, remains shrouded in mystery.

A cargo plane piloted by Dave Lawson battles a raging storm with co-pilot Cliff, desperately searching for a place to land—but miles away, his young son Tommy is jolted awake by a vivid nightmare of his father's crash. When Tommy's panicked warnings lead his mother to contact the airport with an impossibly accurate location, a rescue crew discovers the crash site exactly where the boy's dream foretold. A suspenseful tale that explores whether one child's nightmare might hold the power to alter fate itself.

In a tense standoff on a distant world, Tim Kilray, Laura Rawlins, and Jonathan Jaynes face off against cat-like aliens determined to transform the most vulnerable among them into striped beings like themselves. With their wits and courage tested, the trio must resist an eerie, otherworldly influence that threatens to rewrite their very identities.

A Connecticut farmer's chance discovery of strange fossilized tracks in 1802 sets off a scientific puzzle that would captivate researchers on both sides of the Atlantic. As more of these mysterious impressions and bones surface in quarries and fields, scientists begin piecing together evidence of creatures that walked the earth long before humans existed—leading to a revolutionary understanding of prehistoric life. "The Tracks from Time" traces how curiosity and careful observation transformed scattered fossils into an entirely new branch of science.

A Earth doctor rescues a wounded warrior from the planet Zol, only to discover that everything his military leaders taught him about the enemy was a lie. As Dineen defies orders to protect his patient, he finds himself caught between two worlds at war—and facing an impossible choice that could change the course of the conflict forever.