We have lived in fear a long time! Perhaps it has all been a kind of punishment, but now mankind has returned to the paradise it once knew! This time we will succeed, where those who came before us failed! 
- —Dukas
Appearing in "The Test!"
Featured Characters:
- Dr. Marshek
Supporting Characters:
- Dr. Marshek's Hamsters
Other Characters:
- Dr. Marshek's Colleague
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Synopsis for "The Test!"
An experimental psychologist conducting tests on hamsters has a dream wherein they become so intelligent that they escape their cages and turn the tables on him subjecting him to electric shocks whenever he attempts to leave the house. When he awakes from the dream, he terminates his intelligence enhancing experiment and gives the hamsters away as pets.
Appearing in "The Genius"
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Synopsis for "The Genius"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "They Pass by Night!"
Featured Characters:
- Beatrice Higgins
- Emil Higgins
Supporting Characters:
- Unnamed Mercurian Bus Driver
- Numerous unnamed Mercurian passengers
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Vehicles:
- Higgins' Car
- Mercurian Bus
Synopsis for "They Pass by Night!"
This story attempts to build drama by leading the reader to believe that a bus and a car are going to collide during the night but the last panel reveals the bus was traveling on the planet Mercury and so there was no danger of collision between the two vehicles.
Appearing in "I Can Hear You Think!"
Featured Characters:
- United States Government
- Professor Grant
- Unnamed General
- Numerous other members
Supporting Characters:
- Johnny Downes
- Dr. Wright
Other Characters:
- Mr. Downes (Johnny's Father)
- Mrs. Downes (Johnny's Mother)
- Mind Reading Children
- Zelda
- Numerous unnamed others
- Zelda's Mother
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Synopsis for "I Can Hear You Think!"
After the first atomic bomb explodes children are born with the ability to read minds, which the government put to use as a tactical defense against the Communists.
Appearing in "The Man Who Took a Walk!"
Featured Characters:
- Unnamed Atlantean
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Synopsis for "The Man Who Took a Walk!"
A man from Atlantis tours the scientific achievements of the surface world.
Appearing in "One Who Dared"
Featured Characters:
- Junar
Supporting Characters:
- Junar's Father
- Junar's Mother
Other Characters:
- Junar's Teacher
- Guardsmen
- Dukas
- Numerous unnamed others
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Synopsis for "One Who Dared"
Mankind retreats from atomic horror to live underground for so many years that the past is forgotten and no one recalls why they had to leave the surface. One boy finds that he cannot be like the others and simply accept the situation so he takes the last remaining shaft up to the surface world. Opening the hatch sets off an alarm and the rest of the security detail follow him up to the surface where they discover a new paradise.
Notes
- "The Test!" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills #9.
- "I Can Hear You Think!" is reprinted in Journey Into Mystery (Vol. 2) #9.
- "One Who Dared" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills #9.