Where Monsters Dwell #12

Henry Salt, a man with a knack for invention and a wife who never stops talking, finds himself racing against time when a witch doctor’s curse unleashes giant roots that threaten to overrun Africa. Desperate to stop the spreading vines, he turns to an unlikely source of power—Martha Salt’s voice—and begins building a device to harness its strange, untapped force.

When an American engineer dismisses the warnings of the local Gypsies and presses on with his road through their wood, the land itself seems to turn against him—especially when his steam shovel begins acting on its own. Mr. Mason finds himself trapped between his ambition and the eerie defiance of Grosko, a gypsy whose quiet presence holds a power far older than the machine he claims to control.

Captain Kragg, a pilot who fled a battle in disgrace, crash-lands on a strange Earth-like planet where he encounters Kumbus, a determined explorer on a mission to prove the world is round. Taking Kumbus’s place in a desperate bid for redemption, Kragg soon finds himself facing a truth far stranger than he imagined—because on this planet, the world really is flat.

In a forgotten house on the edge of a quiet town, Stephen Dwane stumbles upon a series of cryptic notes written in an alien tongue—each one hinting at a shapeshifter among them, disguised as a human. The chilling evidence includes a photograph of the alien’s chosen form: Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev, and a warning that the invasion is closer than anyone suspects.

In "The Black Clock!", Mr. Jordan becomes entangled in a chilling mystery after stealing a peculiar timepiece from an old man. As the clock burns in his hands and time itself seems to devour him, he must decide whether to face a swift, agonizing end or the uncertain fate of returning it—knowing neither choice offers true escape.