Crypt of Horror #38

In "Ask Me No Questions," a father’s playful lie about storks delivering his son spirals into something far stranger when the boy, curious and earnest, takes his father’s moose horn and blows it into the night—only to summon a flock of storks carrying babies. The story unfolds with quiet wonder, turning a simple bedtime exchange into a moment of eerie magic, where the line between myth and reality blurs just enough to leave you wondering what comes next.

In "The Endless Rooms!" from Crypt of Horror #38, a ruthless businessman wakes to a nightmare he can't escape—trapped in a shifting labyrinth of rooms, each haunted by twisted echoes of the lives he destroyed. Written by an unnamed scribe and illustrated by an unnamed artist, the story unfolds as a chilling meditation on guilt, where every corridor holds a new face from his past sins.

In "Insane," a man trapped in a web of psychological torment discovers the cruel game his wife and her lover have been playing—amplifying every sound to drive him mad. But when he flips the script, locking them in a cell with nothing but the relentless drip of a leaky faucet, their minds begin to unravel in ways they never expected.

In "Vision of the Gods," two photographers capturing ancient temples in Ceylon are startled by a fleeting figure—a dancing beauty who appears in their midst, only to vanish. Back home, everything seems normal, but when they review their footage, she’s absent, leaving only the echo of something unseen.

In "Home Is Where You Find It!" from Crypt of Horror #38, Ralph Benton confronts a haunting truth when Professor Dalton reveals that the memories he’s dismissed as dreams might be echoes of a past life—leading him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about Kathie, and the strange feelings she’s always tried to explain.

In "The Sands Are Running Out," a man stumbles upon an hourglass that lets him glimpse the future—only to find himself stranded in a timeline far beyond his own. After discovering a forgotten year and investing heavily in land based on that knowledge, he returns again and again, only to face a chilling truth: the past he tried to change no longer remembers him. Written by an unnamed author and illustrated by an unnamed artist, this haunting four-page tale explores the cost of rewriting time, one desperate leap at a time.

In "I Made Time Stand Still," a lone inventor finds himself the only moving soul when his experiment halts time for everyone else. With the world frozen, he takes advantage—stealing from the still forms around him—only to discover too late that they weren’t unaware after all.

In "Smile, Blast Ya, Smile," a science fiction editor finds his career unraveling when a new assistant with an unnervingly cheerful demeanor begins to outshine him—his story selections are praised, readers flock to the magazine, and yet the editor’s world collapses when he’s fired. As his grip on reality slips, he lashes out in a violent rage, tearing off the man’s smiling mask to reveal something utterly inhuman, only to be dismissed as mad and locked away.