Tales of the Mysterious Traveller #[nn]

In "Little Boy Blue," a young trumpeter named Johnny Blue is driven by a haunting curiosity—beyond the music everyone knows, he dreams of notes no one has ever played. When he finally dares to sound them, the world shifts in ways he never expected, and he vanishes without a trace.

Lieutenant Mike Roney and his men return to Fort Hope only to find it in ruins, its garrison slaughtered by a band of warriors led by the fierce Indian leader Crazy Dog. With no immediate help on the way, the survivors must hold out against relentless attacks until Colonel Chivington’s reinforcements arrive—though time may not be on their side.

In "Adrift in Space," a captain is cast out by his mutinous crew for refusing to return to Earth, only to find himself drifting through the void as his crew later discovers the shocking truth: Earth has become uninhabitable during their time in space. The story follows their desperate reckoning and the fragile hope that remains when they realize they may have lost everything—except each other.

In "The Half Men," three broken men set out to build a submarine capable of boring through bedrock, testing it beneath the ocean floor where they uncover a hidden civilization of sorcerers exiled from the surface world. Drawn together by desperation and curiosity, the men find themselves at the mercy of ancient magic that promises healing—but at a cost they may not be ready to pay.

In "Algaroba the Aerial Artist," a young man named Walter Ostrander vanishes without a trace—only to reappear years later as Manuel Algaroba, the world’s most daring aerial performer. His impossible spinning twist, a move once mastered only by the enigmatic Pedro Bargalbo, hints at a deeper mystery linking the two men across time and identity. What secrets lie behind the transformation, and what role did Bargalbo play in shaping the man now known as Algaroba?