Forbidden Worlds #75 (1959)

When a young couple buys an antique clock in a European shop, the owner warns them of its eerie legend: the clock foretold fates for centuries, marking moments of joy with a charming girl and danger with a cloaked figure. As the clock’s hands shift and the ominous figure appears, the couple begins to wonder if the legend is more than just a tale—especially when history seems to repeat itself.

In a haunting tale from *Forbidden Worlds* #75, Dr. Lyle Gordon, haunted by the disappearance of his fiancée Ellen during a failed experiment, has spent decades searching for her in a shattered mind and a forgotten lab on Birch Hill. When psychiatrist Dr. Vincent H. Carr arrives to help, he uncovers a secret tied to a mysterious dimension beam—and a voice from the past that may hold the key to remembering the one thing Gordon can’t: the exact setting that could bring Ellen back.

Professor Bordoni, testing his revolutionary vehicle on a desert highway, activates a mysterious switch marked X, triggering a blinding flash and a disorienting shift in reality. Suddenly stranded in a strange, alien world where his car and appearance mark him as a madman, he’s arrested by authorities who dismiss his claims of dimensional travel. As he’s led away, the story leaves him questioning whether his journey was real—or just a hallucination born from a crash.