Strange Tales of the Unusual #10
"Menace of the Unseen Man" introduces a chilling twist on the classic "hidden machine" trope, set in a small town where a forgotten device has quietly trapped beings from another dimension for decades. Written by Carl Wessler and illustrated by Paul Reinman with inks by John Tartaglione, the story unfolds with eerie precision as a man uncovers his grandfather’s secret and recklessly tests its power—only to vanish himself. The cover by John Severin captures the story’s unsettling atmosphere, a 10-cent marvel from 1957 that still holds its eerie charm.
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A man discovers that his grandfather built a machine to bring people from another dimension to his home town and keep from returning as long as it functioned. He discovers the machine in the attic still running eighty years later and hatches a plan to extort the descendants of the people by threatening to turn off the machine and exiling them from this dimension. They reject his demand for payment so he attempts to demonstrate his threat by turning the dial on machine, but he himself disappears as he was unaware that his mother was one of other dimensional beings brought over.
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