—Narrator...An alien with enormous intelligence who has waited patiently for the time when Earthlings might understand him... For the time when Earthlings would be advanced enough to help him rebuild his damaged spaceship! But that time has not yet come! We are still too ignorant--too barbaric! Perhaps one day it will be otherwise, but not yet... Not yet...
Appearing in "I Found Monstrom! The Dweller in the Black Swamp!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Sara
Antagonists:
- Monstrom (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Luke
- Unnamed Sheriff
Races and Species:
- Unidentified alien species
- Humans
- Alligators
- Turtles
- Frogs
Locations:
- Earthspace
- Earth
- United States of America
- Bayou Country
- United States of America
- Earth
- Heaven (Invoked)
Vehicles:
- Monstrom's Spaceship
Synopsis for "I Found Monstrom! The Dweller in the Black Swamp!"
A writer takes his family to Bayou country to begin work on a new novel, but his son encounters a monster in the swamp. The monster is distracted when an alligator bites his leg, so the father and son flee while the monster finishes off the gator. The man drives into town to warn the sheriff, but is scoffed at, until a neighbor backs up his story. When the monster arrives, they find their weapons ineffective, but the creature shies away from fire, and so they drive it back to the quicksand bog in the swamp. Unknown to everyone involved, the creature meant no harm, and was merely seeking aid to repair his damaged spacecraft sunk under the bog.
Appearing in "The Balloon"
Featured Characters:
- Leroy
Supporting Characters:
- Zoop
Races and Species:
Synopsis for "The Balloon"
Appearing in "I Was Face-to-Face with the Forbidden Robot!"
Featured Characters:
- Ralph
Supporting Characters:
- Anne
Antagonists:
- Unnamed Robot
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "I Was Face-to-Face with the Forbidden Robot!"
A man reactivates an illegal robot in order to gain recognition for stopping it. He destroys the robot, but realizes that robots are harmless, and instead of cashing in he confesses his plan, and advocates the legalization of robots.
Appearing in "I Dared to Look into the Beyond!"
Featured Characters:
- Derek Welles
Supporting Characters:
- Carl
Other Characters:
- Roman Empire
- Marcus
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-60911
- Earthspace
- Heaven (Invoked)
Items:
- Time Machine
Synopsis for "I Dared to Look into the Beyond!"
In the year 2050 time travel is routine, but only into the past. A scientist is frustrated with this limitation and so he attempts to build a machine that will take him to the year 3050. He succeeds in building the machine despite his colleagues' entreaties to give up what they perceive as madness as he will only end up disintegrating himself by attempting to travel into what does not yet exist. When he steps out of the machine, he assumes that his colleagues were correct and that he has failed and merely traveled far into the distant past because everything is desolate. He returns to 2050 not having noticed a stone memorial that states in the year 3045 the entire population of Earth left the planet in order to relocate.
Appearing in "I Wore... The Mask of Drothor!"
Featured Characters:
- Markas
Antagonists:
- Drothor (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Unnamed Artist (Only in flashback)
- Numerous unnamed police officers
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earthspace (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- Netherworld (Invoked)
Items:
- Mask of Drothor (First appearance)
Synopsis for "I Wore... The Mask of Drothor!"
An artist named Markas wants to create a mask so inspiring that it will make his name his famous once more. He looks for inspiration in a book about an ugly sorcerer named Drothor who cursed anyone that referred to the features of his face. He completes the mask and deems it his masterpiece and hatches a scheme to commit robbery while wearing the mask since it is so lifelike no one will suspect that it is merely a mask. He empties a safe, but police pursue him into his hideout, though he is not worried as he can simply remove the mask and be safe. But the curse has struck once again, for Markas finds to his horror that after removing the mask, his own face come to appear exactly as Drothor's.
Notes
- "I Found Monstrom! The Dweller in the Black Swamp!" is reprinted in Chamber of Chills #18 and Fear #1.
- "I Was Face-to-Face with the Forbidden Robot!" is reprinted in Dead of Night #10 and Fear #1.
- "I Dared to Look into the Beyond!" is reprinted in Crypt of Shadows #18 and Where Monsters Dwell #6.
- "I Wore the Mask of Drothor" is reprinted in Dead of Night #10 and Chamber of Darkness #7.