Where Monsters Dwell #6

When the alien monarch Groot descends on Earth to harvest a town for his planet’s experiments, young Leslie Evans and her sister Alice must find a way to stop him—before the entire town is taken. With no weapons but cleverness and a surprising ally in the form of termites, the sisters face an otherworldly threat unlike anything they’ve ever known.

In "I Dared to Look Into the Beyond!", a scientist pushes the limits of his own understanding, constructing a time machine not to escape his present, but to glimpse what lies ahead. What he finds challenges everything he thought he knew—revealing a future Earth stripped of life, a world left behind, and a truth that redefines time itself.

Gustav, a wood-carver with a bitter streak, becomes obsessed with his latest sculpture—only to have his obsession turn him into wood. When a gypsy mystic demands payment for her magic, his refusal sparks a twist of spite that brings the statue to life, blurring the line between man and craft.

In "When the Saucer Strikes!" from Where Monsters Dwell #6 (1970), a commercial airline pilot makes a sharp maneuver to avoid a mysterious flying saucer—only to find that every passenger but one was asleep. The lone awake traveler claims he saw nothing, but his denial hides a startling truth: he’s not human at all, and the saucer was never a threat—it was a pickup.