Vashto was our enemy, but you hadn't the brains to see it! I'm responsible! Karra made you give up thinking! This then is the price we must pay for making the machine out god... EXTINCTION! 
- —Karra
Appearing in "The Iron Door"
Featured Characters:
- People of Earth
- Numerous unnamed Earthlings
Supporting Characters:
- Karra (First appearance; dies)
Antagonists:
- Vashto (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Rats (Mentioned)
- Saturnians
Locations:
- Earth-Unknown (First appearance) (4467 A.D.)
Items:
- "The Mechanical Brain" (Book)
Synopsis for "The Iron Door"
In the future humankind relies heavily on machines, when it all begins to fail they put their faith in a man called Vashto. Vashto braves through the "Iron Door" and confronts what the people of Earth think the problem is which is a saboteur. Vashto shoots said saboteur and leaves him for dead as he flees. The people of earth enter the door and learn the man that was shot was Karra the one who built the machines and had been running them. He explains in his dying breath that Vashto was from Saturn and it was they who stalled his work. As he die Karra thinks to himself that it was his fault for allowing people to rely so much on machines and that perhaps it's better they die out this way.
Appearing in "The Eyes!"
Featured Characters:
- John (Apparent death)
Antagonists:
- Gregg Stanton (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- United States of America
- Big Town Bar (First appearance)
- Gregg Stanton's Apartment
- Earth
Synopsis for "The Eyes!"
A man goes into a bar to call a friend for a job referral and drops his dime. Since he's broke, he looks around frantically but cannot locate it. One of the patrons sitting on a stool with his back to him says "Look under your foot." When he lifts his foot, there is the dime and he says "Without turning around, you must have eyes in the back of your head." The patrons become murderous in intent and pursue the frightened man out of the bar. He thinks about what he said and realizes that is why he never gets a break because there really are men with eyes in the back of their head which gives them an advantage. When he tells his friend this story in his apartment the friend kills him, because he too, has eyes in the back of his head.
Appearing in "The Murdering Ghost"
Featured Characters:
- Burton's Buttons Inc. (First appearance)
- Harold Burton (First appearance; dies) (Becomes a cursed ghost of Cranaghel Castle)
Supporting Characters:
- Mr. MacGregor
Antagonists:
- Murdoch Campbell (First appearance) (Ghost, soul or spirit)
Other Characters:
- Mrs. MacGregor
- Four of Murdoch Campbell's unnamed sons (Mentioned in narration) (Deceased)
- Robert the Bruce (Mentioned)
- Five unnamed ghosts
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "The Murdering Ghost"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "The Thing in the Bottle!"
Featured Characters:
- Unnamed Criminal
Supporting Characters:
- Unnamed Genie
Other Characters:
- Unnamed Hotel Manager
- Unnamed Sailor (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- United States of America
- 63 Front Street
- United States of America
- Earth
Synopsis for "The Thing in the Bottle!"
A criminal stays in a shady inn to lay low from the cops only to find a genie in the closet. Upon granting his third wish to become a genie the criminal is turned into a genie and thrown into the ocean inside the very same bottle he found the original genie in.
Appearing in "When a World Goes Mad!"
Featured Characters:
- Unnamed Professor
Supporting Characters:
- Unnamed Beast (Vision or hallucination)
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Creature
Other Characters:
- Albert Einstein (Referenced)
- Bob Smith (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Earth
- United States of America
- Eastern State University
- United States of America
- Earth
Synopsis for "When a World Goes Mad!"
A school professor lectures his students on sizes being relevant to the perceiver. His students don't understand and so he tells them a story featuring a giant being roaming through space that could eat the planets of the solar system, that could also be eaten by an even larger being. Upon leaving the class room the students mock the possibility of a giant creature from space only to see a giant hand coming down to them from above.
Notes
Publication Notes[]
- "The Eyes" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills #15.
- "When a World Goes Mad!" is reprinted in Weird Wonder Tales #1.
See Also
- 1 image(s) from Adventures into Weird Worlds Vol 1 2
- 3 reprint(s) of Adventures into Weird Worlds Vol 1 2