Weird Science #9

When the Venus-2 stumbles upon the derelict Venus-1 drifting in the void, Captain Larkin and his crew find a scene of unimaginable horror—every crew member of the lost ship reduced to bare bones, stripped of all organic matter. As they search the wreckage, they discover a preserved corpse clutching a desperate warning, frozen in time and silence.

In "The Martian Monster," a man in a costume plays the part of an alien to manipulate a young boy into killing his father, hoping to claim the boy’s inheritance. But when the boy takes the threat seriously and ventures into the woods, he stumbles upon something far more real—and far more dangerous—than a man in a suit.

In the quiet aftermath of a planet’s surrender, two survivors—Keve and Nan—take flight in a desperate bid to escape a world that’s already fallen. Their journey to a new world promises a fresh start, but the promise of a new beginning quickly twists into something far more unsettling.