Weird Fantasy #8

In "It Didn't Matter," Arnold, the assistant to a wealthy scientist with a secret matter-transporting machine, finds himself drawn to the man’s beautiful wife—only to discover her affection is a mask for greed and betrayal. When she plans to kill her husband and frame Arnold by sending her through the machine as an alibi, a thunderstorm’s electrical interference twists her arrival in terrifying ways.

In 1839, a slave ship bound for America faces a grim fate when its crew, desperate to evade capture, casts their chained human cargo into the ocean. But the cruelty doesn’t end there—after being seized by alien beings, the slave runners themselves are thrown into the void, still linked by chains, as the cosmos delivers its own merciless justice.

In the 1951 science fiction tale "The Enemies of the Colony," a group of colonists led by Captain Vorkey and his family land on a distant world after years in transit, only to find themselves entangled in a web of deception. The planet’s native Mokos and the feared Hydro-Files turn out to be far more complex than the colonists expected, revealing truths that challenge everything they thought they knew.