Weird Fantasy #3

In the shadow of Earth’s civil war, President Luther Morton of the Amalgamated Rocket Corporation pushes forward with a bold plan: colonize the Moon as humanity’s last refuge. But when he reveals his intention to deploy the devastating Electron Bomb against the rebels, even his closest ally, scientist Dr. Jansen, begins to question whether survival at any cost is truly progress.

Stevey Williams, restless after being banished from his father’s lab, stumbles upon a mysterious stranger in the woods. Eager to impress, he spins wild tales about the body he’s seen—only to realize the man knows more than he should. As the truth begins to unravel, Stevey finds himself face to face with something far stranger than he imagined.

Commander Stone recounts the night his ship fell apart under mysterious circumstances, with only fragments of memory to guide him. As he describes the events to a skeptical audience, the names Bitron, Berghoff, and Kholler surface—each tied to a moment that defies logic. The truth of what happened may not be in the report, but in the silence between the lines.

In a future where women run society and men are relegated to domestic roles, a man finds himself unexpectedly assigned to a new kind of duty—becoming a mother. As he grapples with the shift in identity and the weight of tradition, the world he once knew feels both alien and strangely familiar.

In the aftermath of a radioactive comet that has left all mammals sterile, two aging scientists make a desperate bid to save humanity by sending a time wave back to the past. They activate a time field at Grand Central Station, hoping to bring future generations forward to repopulate the world—only to realize, with growing confusion, that only men are arriving. The mystery deepens as they grapple with why the field seems to be pulling only half the equation into the future.

In "The Trip!", Dr. Lon Masterson, a scientist working for the Space Colonization Authority, devises a revolutionary method to quick freeze live animals for interstellar transport—only to apply the same technique to a far more personal dilemma. With his assistant Edith Fuller caught in a secret romance and his wife Henrietta unwilling to grant a divorce, Masterson makes a desperate decision that blurs the line between scientific ambition and emotional escape. As Colonel Curtis watches the experiment unfold, the fate of one woman—and the future of a colony—hangs in the balance.

In the future, a young boy watches a falling star and wishes his father would finally come home to stay. His mother, weary from years of long absences, doesn’t know how to answer the boy’s longing—until the star’s descent reveals a shocking truth. The story unfolds with quiet urgency, blending wonder and tension as the boy’s wish takes on a literal, desperate weight.

In the quiet chaos of an Easter egg hunt, a young boy stumbles upon a strange egg that speaks to him in whispers only he can hear. When he takes it to a hidden cave, the egg hatches into a cone-shaped alien that demands meat—and soon grows too big to ignore. As the creature begins devouring livestock across the countryside, the boy’s only refuge becomes a summer camp far from home. But even as the military moves in with flame throwers, the story ends with a chilling echo: across America, children are finding eggs just like the first.

In "The Exile!", a grim journey unfolds as two men escort a prisoner to a distant world deemed unfit for their utopian society. On a planet where a genetic anomaly is believed to be the root of all evil, the condemned are banished to Earth—unbeknownst to them, the very world they’ve been sent to is humanity’s home. The prisoner, Adolph Hitler, is carried into a fate that echoes across time, but the full weight of his exile remains shrouded in mystery.

In "The Expert!", EC Comics editors Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein seek out a so-called expert to help them write a story about Mars—only to be stunned when the man’s outlandish claims turn out to be the truth, revealing a visitor from the red planet himself.

In a moment of last-minute panic, EC Comics editors Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein whip up a fake ad for a Mars trip to fill a blank page—only years later, they’re stunned when a stranger approaches, thanking them for the ad that led him to a real journey to Mars and a wife with four arms and three eyes.

Dr. Annette Beard wakes to a world reduced to silence after a nuclear blast, the last person standing in a shattered landscape. As memories of her past—of missed chances and a life half-lived—flicker through her mind, a sudden, unexpected chance arises in the ruins. Can she seize it, or will the weight of what she’s lost keep her from moving forward?

In "Mad Journey!", Rodney Simon, the ambitious president of Crown Oil Company, races to push a revolutionary fuel to its limits—only to find that the very gas meant to launch a rocket to Venus may be more than just a breakthrough. With his team of executives and scientists, including the doomed Jeffreys and Alan Corlin, Simon ventures into uncharted territory, where the line between innovation and disaster blurs.

In "Revulsion!", a weary captain grumbles about his roach-infested spaceship, recalling a past dinner where a bug slipped into his salad. When the ship crashes on an alien world, the crew discovers a civilization of giant, clothed insects—only to be captured and prepared as a meal for their king. The king’s horrified reaction to finding humans in his salad sets off a tense, unsettling chain of events.

Captain Philip Donnel leads a lone starship on a 30-light-year journey to Pollux, hoping to make first contact with alien life—only to arrive and find the star vanished without a trace. With time running short and no explanation for the disappearance, the crew must confront the mystery before their mission ends in silence.

Captain Philip Donnel takes the helm of a mission to Pollux, a star 30 years away by conventional travel, aboard a ship equipped with the revolutionary space time overdrive invented by Sandor Mannershmitt. With Lieutenant James Murtha handling systems and Bob Hatch decoding alien signals, the crew faces the weight of a journey that may outlive them—only to find something unexpected waiting at the destination.

In "He Who Waits!", a curious scientist named Percy receives an odd gift from Alec—an unusual plant that sprouts a tiny, 8" tall girl named Petite. Drawn in by her fragile presence, Percy takes a secret solution to shrink himself, setting off a strange journey into a world where size and wonder collide.

When two archaeologists, Alan and Marvin, unearth a mysterious, block-like artifact covered in ancient inscriptions, they’re stunned to learn it’s the diary of an alien boy who fled his world 14 centuries ago—his story unfolding across five etched sides, revealing a journey far beyond Earth. The diary’s revelations connect to a legendary figure known as Saint George and a mysterious princess named Sabra, hinting at a tale of escape, exile, and forgotten interstellar secrets.

In "Mass Meeting!", a greedy uranium tycoon’s plan to mine Venus and teleport its riches to Mars sets off a chain reaction of cosmic imbalance—unintended consequences that threaten to unravel the solar system itself. As the shifting masses of the two planets pull dangerously out of orbit, the fate of Earth hangs in the balance.

When a team of archaeologists unearths what they believe to be the first complete fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, they’re stunned to find a human skull buried alongside it—leading to a mystery that challenges everything they thought they knew about prehistoric time and the people who might have walked the Earth long before. The discovery sets off a chain of events that will test the limits of science, history, and the very nature of what’s possible.

In the stark silence of a lifeless planetoid, Martin clings to sanity as visions of three beautiful girls—two fleeting apparitions and his wife Jean—appear in the dust, each more real than the last. As the line between memory and madness blurs, he must confront the eerie presence of Czuk and Trark, whose motives remain as distant and dangerous as the stars above.

In "The Green Thing!", a mysterious green slime emerges from a crashed spaceship near a quiet farm, infecting first a dog, then a mare, turning each host a vivid shade of green. As the alien lifeform manipulates perception by making the family colorblind, paranoia grows—until the son uses a red filter to photograph his family, uncovering the hidden host.

In the Beginning... plunges readers into a stark sci-fi dilemma: a future space crew, stranded after a time rift, lands on a prehistoric twin Earth and captures three ape men. Back in their own era, the creatures are studied under glass, but when one—a female—falls ill, a scientist warns that keeping her may unravel humanity’s very origin. With the captain unwilling to risk another journey through time, the decision is made to let her die, setting off a chain of events that could erase the present and force evolution to begin again.

In "Ahead of the Game!", a string of baffling beheadings stumps the police, with no clear link between the victims—until a detective uncovers a chilling pattern tied to a brilliant but unhinged professor. When the trail leads to a man who claims his mechanical brain can predict the future, the line between genius and madness blurs, and the detective finds himself the next target in a deadly game.

In "The Aliens," a group of extraterrestrial visitors, journeying to Earth with the intent to share knowledge about atomic power, arrive to find the planet destroyed. Landing on a surviving fragment, they begin to study the remnants of a civilization that once thrived—only to confront the mystery of their own arrival, and the silence left behind.

In "There Will Come Soft Rains...", a silent, self-sustaining house carries on its daily routines long after its human inhabitants are gone—reduced to faint silhouettes on the wall, their lives erased by a nuclear holocaust. The story unfolds through the house’s mechanical rituals, a haunting echo of normalcy in a world where humanity has vanished, leaving only the machines that once served them.