Creepy Worlds #89

Mr. Meekson, a quiet office accountant, leads a secret life as a thief who steals masterpieces not for profit, but to preserve their beauty in his own sanctuary. When his carefully hidden world is exposed by a prank gone wrong, his final act of devotion reveals a man whose obsession with perfection transcends the ordinary.

Andrew Tate, a homeless man seeking shelter from the rain, takes refuge in the Los Angeles Museum of Art and falls asleep in a gallery. He dreams of being welcomed into a mysterious old man’s home for dinner, only to wake up the next morning realizing the entire experience may have been a vision triggered by a painting he was staring at. The story ends with him puzzled by a strange detail in the artwork and the lingering feeling that something unusual happened.

The Mysterious Traveler recounts the astonishing moment a blind man, Mac Thompson, suddenly regains his sight after a fall, only to be haunted by the memory of a tiny, fleeing figure he claims to have sheltered on his shoulder. Though dismissed as a delusion, the man’s restored vision brings a chilling realization: something impossible left a mark on his handkerchief, a detail only the Traveler would know.

Fred, the lonely diner owner on a remote beach, lives in quiet routine—until his nightly dream of a mysterious girl walking the shore becomes terrifyingly real. When the girl from his dream appears in the moonlight, asking for a match, he’s gripped by a sudden, chilling memory of a scientist’s words: dreams may glimpse the future, where time doesn’t exist. Frozen between memory and reality, Fred flees in panic, unsure if he’s escaped a nightmare or stepped into one.

When a greedy homebuilder constructs his dream house from wood harvested from cursed trees, he soon finds himself haunted by a presence he can’t explain—no matter how many desperate measures he tries, the spirit won’t leave. As his fortunes crumble and his sanity wavers, he clings to the belief that the house is just a problem to be solved, not a living thing with a will of its own. In this chilling tale from *Creepy Worlds #89*, the line between builder and haunted, house and ghost, begins to blur in ways he never expected.

A damaged World War II submarine, the Sea Wolf, is ordered to Guam for decommissioning, but its crew—led by a determined lieutenant and two frogmen—must fight to survive when they’re attacked by Japanese warships. With the sub leaking and near collapse, the crew devises a desperate plan to use the frogmen to disarm a live charge and plant a delayed bomb on an enemy destroyer.