Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds #4

When Philip Dexter inherits Dexter Hall, he resolves to confront the mystery that has haunted the mansion since his uncle's death—the sealed forbidden room where a mysterious swami once prepared a dark bargain for eternal youth. As Philip opens the door and begins to uncover the room's terrible secret, he must grapple with the consequences of his uncle's obsession and discover what price was truly paid within those walls.

Pilot Sock Sorenson takes a charter job that seems too good to pass up when Doctor Ernst Volkert hires him to fly deep into an unexplored, mist-shrouded valley far north of Fairbanks—only to discover that Volkert and his assistant Koresky have been melting a glacier with steam, releasing prehistoric monsters frozen in the ice for millions of years. Now trapped in a deadly landscape with man-eating creatures and fanatics bent on using the beasts to conquer North America, Sorenson must find a way out before the thaw releases something even more terrifying.

A hermit hiding in a remote swamp hears voices calling him by a childhood name he hasn't heard in years, stirring fragmented memories of a scientist, a family that seemed to ignore him, and a time-bending machine that may have changed everything. As the voices grow more insistent, the truth about what happened to him—and where he really is—begins to break through the fog of his isolation.

An alien explorer named Namo has spent three hundred Earth years undercover—his human disguise rapidly failing—to determine whether mankind is ready for contact with his extraterrestrial civilization. When his facial mask threatens to collapse and reveal his true nature, fear-stricken humans pursue him relentlessly down a country road. Racing against time, Namo must reach his hidden spacecraft before either the truth is exposed or his mission fails forever.