Weird Fantasy #22

In the eerie quiet of a Martian town frozen in silence, Walter Grippe walks among empty streets, haunted by the sudden ring of a phone that echoes twice before he answers—this time to a voice on the line that leads him to Genevieve Selsor. What begins as a fragile connection in a world without others soon unravels into something far stranger than he expected, leaving him to face the unsettling truth of solitude in a place where no one should be.

In a 1953 tale of eerie unease, the outcast performers of a traveling circus—Bosco, Mildred, Elasto, Aldo, and Tarpo—grow weary of the cruelty and pity in the crowd’s eyes. When one of their own dies under mysterious circumstances, the circus owners Stanley Gilby and Ned Smote seek a new attraction, unaware that the line between performer and predator is thinner than they thought. The arrival of Callon-X, a man from the future, only deepens the dread as the freaks’ quiet defiance begins to twist into something far more dangerous.

In the silent ruins of a dead world, a crew of explorers uncovers colossal bones that hint at a forgotten giant. As they painstakingly reconstruct the creature’s form, they’re stunned to learn their own planet’s life may have sprung from this ancient world. When the final piece is placed, the truth emerges in a moment of eerie revelation—what they’ve rebuilt is not a monster, but a human baby.

Captain Vance Kaye and his crew investigate a derelict rocket ship, the Y-75, adrift for over two decades—only to find it filled with the remains of more than just its original crew. As they piece together the ship’s tragic log, they uncover a chilling tale of mutiny, exile, and a desperate refusal to return to Earth.