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Strange Suspense Stories #61 (1962)

Charlton · 1962 · 26 pages

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Contains 5 stories
From Out of Time
3 pp · science fiction
Juan

When a nuclear charge is detonated deep underground to access buried oil reserves, engineer Juan and his team get more than they bargained for—the blast awakens something ancient and hungry that had been entombed for millions of years. As the creature emerges from the tunnel with a taste for vengeance, the workers must face the terrifying consequences of harnessing atomic power in ways science doesn't yet fully understand.

Imagination!
5 pp · science fiction

A lonely boy's desperate need for friendship opens an impossible door when his vivid imagination summons an equally isolated creature from another dimension. As Paul and Torlla find comfort in each other's company night after night, their bond becomes the balm for two kindred souls separated by worlds—but time and growing up threaten to sever what neither can bear to lose. This 1962 tale explores how imagination can bridge the deepest gulfs, and whether some connections truly fade away or simply echo across dimensions forever.

Listen, Earth
4 pp · science fiction

A bored man named Jason Marcus gets the shock of his life when he spots an exact duplicate of himself dining at a restaurant, launching him into an encounter with mysterious beings who offer him an incredible—but suspiciously vague—adventure on Mars. What begins as a dream-come-true invitation unravels into something far more sinister when Marcus realizes the true cost of leaving Earth behind. This 1962 science fiction tale explores what happens when you're careful what you wish for, and whether escape from boredom can come at too high a price.

Bird Watchers, Beware!
6 pp · science fiction

Ornithologist Larkin Swift has become obsessed with an alarming theory—that birds are organizing a coordinated conspiracy to destroy humanity—but his colleagues at the university dismiss his warnings as paranoid delusion. When Swift's investigations lead him to a clifftop discovery near the Pacific coast, he's swept up in a terrifying encounter that seems to confirm his worst fears about our feathered adversaries. What begins as the ravings of a madman may be something far more sinister than anyone is willing to believe.

The Eyes of Doom
7 pp · science fiction

On a twilight planet ripe for colonization, Lieutenant Jack Denton discovers he's not alone when a Soviet operative arrives with the same technology—and a ruthless advantage: enslaved alien creatures with no eyes who respond only to fire and fear. When the two ideological enemies clash over Denton's ship, the eyeless inhabitants become judges of a different kind, and Denton must decide what kind of man he'll be when survival hangs on a single choice.

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