Astounding Stories #19

Dr. Nolan Conrad completes humanity's greatest breakthrough: a working time machine. When he activates it in 1999 to witness history and prevent Abraham Lincoln's assassination, something goes terribly wrong—and he finds himself witnessing an entirely different tragedy about to unfold. With only hours to act and no one willing to believe him, Conrad must find a way to change the course of events before it's too late.

In "A Slight Change of Luck!" from Astounding Stories #19 (1967), the tangled romance between Vic Latimer, Grace Farwell, and Dave Henderson takes an unexpected turn after a visit to Magic Mountain, setting off a chain of events that lingers across years—until fate offers a second chance at clarity.

Francois Etienne attempts a daring leap from the Eiffel Tower using experimental wings in this fantastical tale from 1967, but his tragic failure condemns him to haunt the famous landmark as a ghost—until decades later, when Nazi occupation during World War II gives the Eiffel Tower Phantom a chance at redemption. With Paris under threat of destruction, the phantom must decide whether to remain a specter of the past or rise to protect his beloved city.

In "Missing: Frederick Forbes!" from Astounding Stories #19 (1967), the great-grandson of a vanished 19th-century banker agrees to undergo hypnosis to uncover the truth behind his ancestor’s mysterious disappearance—and the lost fortune that vanished with him. What begins as a search for a long-buried secret soon reveals a startling truth far removed from the usual tales of theft or betrayal.

Dave Warren treasures his Uncle Ben's tales of African adventure—especially the story of the golden Luck of the Zanubis shield, which saved his uncle's life through sheer supernatural fortune. Years later, as a grown man haunted by the belief that losing the shield cost him his luck, Dave finds himself trapped in a cave with his wife Hildy during their honeymoon visit to his boyhood home. When a mysterious dream sends him searching for the shield he lost so long ago, Dave must discover whether the artifact's power is real—or whether it was only ever the belief in it that mattered.

During the Second World War, seaman Charles Nieman is the sole survivor of a freighter torpedoed in the English Channel by a German U-boat—only to be rescued by a mysterious sub-chaser that appears to materialize from nowhere, its shells passing through the enemy vessel as if it were phantom. Recovering in a naval hospital, Nieman recounts his ordeal to the authorities, including the strange uniforms worn by his rescuers, details that spark an investigation with far stranger implications than anyone anticipated. A tale of wartime legend that blurs the line between the living and the lost, "The Ghostly Patrol!" asks whether some debts transcend even death itself.