World of Mystery #4

Cal takes a lease on a remote house haunted by the disappearance of its last tenant—a young woman—only to find one window that refuses to let in any light. When he climbs through it, he steps into a warped, eerie dimension where he finds her trapped, and together they flee from shadowy, mist-like entities. After returning to their world, Cal shatters the window, sealing the rift forever.

When a team from World View magazine journeys to the Peruvian highlands to document a sacred tribal ritual, they’re met with resistance from King Tohotal and his people—but the real mystery begins when they return to the office. J. M. Evans, Clyde Hover, Roger Wayne, and Bill Hopkins find their experiences in the forbidden land unraveling in ways that defy explanation.

Conman Judd Kerr stumbles into Abbyville with a wild tale about an alien hiding among the townsfolk, but his scheme to stir up fear takes a dangerous turn when the residents’ suspicion begins to feel all too real. As the line between hoax and horror blurs, the quiet town of Abbyville and the nearby community of Keysville—especially the Curvolot Family—find themselves caught in a web of paranoia that may be far more than just a scam.

Frank Beech wakes from a nightmare of a train wreck—only to live it again the next morning on his commute. As the rails shudder and the world tilts, he finds himself trapped in a dream within a dream, with Madge and the ghost of a fellow commuter, Charley, lingering in the blur between waking and dread. He’s not sure what’s real anymore—and he’s not going to find out by going to work.

In the heart of Africa during World War II, a soldier known as "Yellow Eyes" — a towering figure with a feline grace — shares a bond with a fellow platoon member that will echo long after the war ends. When fate brings them together again years later, a lion attack forces the past to surface, and the man with the golden eyes must decide what loyalty truly means.

In "What Happened in the Basement?", John Winters finds himself abruptly pulled 550 years into the future, where he's mistaken for an alien spy and given just ten minutes to prove his identity. With his wife Madge and two unnamed sons far away in 1956, the only chance to return home lies in a mysterious basement—and a single switch that could undo the accident before it’s too late.