Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #14

Bruce Kenner answers a laboratory job posting and meets Professor Harver, who's been researching a way to defy gravity—and wants to use Bruce's apparent strength as a stage attraction to keep the discovery hidden from the world. When Bruce threatens to reveal the Professor's revolutionary work, tensions escalate and the gravity machine spins catastrophically out of control. A tale of ambition, secrecy, and the price of knowing too much from the 1959 pages of Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds.

Jason Welles crashes his car into a ravine at Smuggler's Cove and realizes the rising tide will submerge the vehicle—and him—in just two hours. Miles away, his wife Lydia is suddenly gripped by an overwhelming sense that something is terribly wrong, and she hears her husband's desperate voice calling to her from his mind, giving her the location and the deadly countdown. In this 1959 tale from *Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds*, a husband and wife's love may be the only force powerful enough to cheat death itself.

Steve Dawson's arrogance lands him aboard what he thinks is a transatlantic rocket—only to discover he's stowed away on an interplanetary vessel from the distant world of Andor. Dazzled by the alien civilization and its abundance of gold, Steve's obsession with becoming somebody back on Earth blinds him to everything else, even as his hosts prepare to return him home. When he finally touches ground again, he learns a hard truth about the cost of his greed and selfishness.