Forbidden Worlds #84 (1959)

Dr. Gavin, a university lecturer, observes Enoch Frazer, a grieving man haunted by the memory of Tina, a brilliant woman he loved who died months ago. Enoch becomes obsessed with the idea that Tina still lives—perhaps in the mysterious world beneath the sea—especially after noticing strange clues like her wheelchair tracks leading into the ocean. As he searches the shore, he finds himself drawn deeper into the possibility that her disappearance may not have been what it seemed.

In his isolated lab, brilliant scientist Martin Chesterton builds a mechanical man driven by an electronic brain capable of responding to thought—only to collapse unconscious just as he activates it, leaving the robot adrift without direction. When Martin later expresses wishes while on vacation in Paris, the dormant robot, still receiving his subconscious impulses, begins acting on them across the ocean, triggering a series of bizarre events that draw the attention of police and the press.

In the haunted halls of Saxon Hall, Frank Peale and his wife Alice are drawn into a mysterious scheme when a self-proclaimed medium named Corwin claims he can uncover the hidden fortune of Frank’s ancestor, Sir Ambrose Peale, a 16th-century privateer. Using hypnosis, Corwin attempts to contact the spirit of the long-dead nobleman, who supposedly buried his treasure on a remote Scottish island—only for the trance to end in confusion, leaving Frank with no memory of the revelation and Alice deeply uneasy about Corwin’s motives.

When Carl Matson discovers a mysterious glass ball containing the spirit of a goddess who can show him the future, he uses her power to glimpse events ahead—first to see a building rising on a vacant lot, then to spot future developments that allow him to make profitable real estate deals. As his confidence grows, he ventures further into the future, only to find himself stranded when the ball shatters, leaving him trapped in 1959 with no way back.