World of Suspense #5

Simon Miller wakes to a nightmare: his own duplicate has taken his place, claiming to be his long-lost twin. With police at the door and the truth unraveling in his home, the real Simon must prove he’s not the impostor—before the machine that made the copy turns on them all.

In "By the Dark of the Moon," Luther Krohler sets out to expose the mysterious alien believed to have descended from a long-ago landing, targeting Fred Reuse as the culprit—partly out of revenge against Fred’s father, Mr. Lubek, for a past heartbreak. But when the truth emerges, Luther discovers he is the one with alien blood, unaware of his own origins all along, leading to a tense confrontation and his eventual imprisonment.

In "Menace Below!", Karlin, a man with a secret mission, is shown American weapons but denied access to a mysterious new underwater device. Drawn by curiosity and suspicion, he returns under cover of night in a diving suit to investigate—unaware that the device is a deadly anti-frog man mine, primed to detonate at the slightest touch.

In a tense, high-stakes banquet, Joe Martel finds himself targeted by the menacing Zarki and his men, whose glass helmets protect them from Earth's atmosphere. When Martel sings the Star-Spangled Banner, his surprisingly high pitch cracks their helmets, disrupting their oxygen supply and leaving them helpless.

Hugo Steiner, a man obsessed with uncovering truth through his memory-visualizer, is handed a mysterious newborn by Hans—sealed in a lead-lined box. Hoping to prove the purity of innocence, Hugo activates his device, only to be confronted by visions of humanity’s darkest impulses. As the experiment unravels, he destroys his machine in silence, unaware of what he’s truly dismissed.

In "The Brain Trap!", Harry Hoyt’s accidental invention of a hair growth formula quickly spirals into a deadly game of minds when his partner, Earle Bolton, turns murderous upon discovering Harry’s newfound telepathy. With Nan Hoyt caught in the crossfire, Harry must rely on his sudden mental powers to survive—before the formula’s secrets destroy them all.