Weird Science #17

In "Plucked!", a quiet town is thrown into unease when a strange, silent event leaves behind only faint memories and missing people—no one remembers who was taken, only that something was wrong. The aliens return every few centuries, and this time, their arrival is as subtle as it is terrifying.

A Broadway promoter chasing legend sails to a remote island, drawn by whispers of a monstrous creature. What he finds is not a beast, but a misunderstood being—peaceful, alien, and carrying a message meant for humanity. The journey to bring it to New York sets off a chain of revelations neither he nor his crew could have foreseen.

In "The Long Years!", a group of Earthlings exploring a desolate, war-scarred Mars stumbles upon an aging scientist living in isolation with his young family. After the scientist dies suddenly, the visitors discover a hidden cemetery—and the haunting truth that the family he cherished was never real.