World of Fantasy #5

In "Fade-Out!", a man's obsession leads him to tamper with time in a desperate bid to win the woman he desires. Using a time machine, he plants evidence to frame his cousin, hoping to ruin the engagement—only to find his plan unravels in ways he never expected when he returns to the present.

In "Death Waits Below!", a white man's sudden descent from the sky stuns a group of African natives, who believe he’s a bird-god sent from the heavens. Taken to a cliff’s edge, he’s expected to prove his divine nature by leaping into the void below.

In a desert mirage that defies reason, two men vanish into a vision of a lost city glowing with emeralds—only to be found days later, barely alive, in a hospital. As one recovers first, he discovers a necklace of glass emeralds on the bedside table, sparking a haunting belief that the mirage was real. When the doctor reveals the other man left behind a similar necklace for his wife, the truth of what they saw begins to unravel in quiet, unsettling ways.

In "Beware the Eyes of Arch!" from World of Fantasy #5 (1957), a man convinced he’s inherited Medusa’s petrifying gaze becomes the unwitting star of a clever prank when a cleaning lady swaps his birdcage’s canary with a stone one. His panic over the seemingly petrified bird leads him to attempt a bank robbery, only to be caught—though not for the reason he thinks.