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For, after all, did you think that the Sixth Dimension... was the only dimension... planning to attack Earth??!!

"Paul Marshall"

Appearing in "A Monster at My Window!"

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Synopsis for "A Monster at My Window!"

A science fiction writer sees glimpses of a monstrous creature that seems to be stalking him. After seeing the monster outside his window, goes to the bathroom for some medication when he hears the window break. When he returns to the room he beholds the monster is real and not a hallucination. He flees the creature, and the monster pursues him up to the building roof. The monster corners him and demands that he write stories of friendly aliens that look like him so that people will be influenced by his stories and unsuspecting when they launch an attack. The writer then reveals that he is in reality a monster from another dimension with designs upon Earth. The two creatures engage in a death struggle which the narrator offers the prayer will prove fatal for the both of them.

Appearing in "Masquerade"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Journey Into Unknown Worlds #38

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Synopsis for "Masquerade"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Journey Into Unknown Worlds #38
A too-serious boy named Tommy is taught that it's okay to have fun with make-belief by the girl of his dreams, Kitty Blake, who invites him to a costume party. He arrives at the wrong address without a costume and meets Old King Cole and other fairy tale characters who he thinks are just Kitty's friends acting the part. They call him a "Doubting Thomas" since he doesn't believe in fairy tales. When he leaves the party to phone Kitty to find out when she left (since he hadn't seen her yet), he found out he was at the wrong address. He arrives at the right address and everyone loves his "costume" which he notices is just his plain clothes but silver letters spelling "Doubting Thomas" had appeared.

Appearing in "The Strange Fate of the Statue Maker!"

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  • Luther Benedict's Stone Ray

Synopsis for "The Strange Fate of the Statue Maker!"

An inventor attempts to develop a growth ray but fails by creating a process that can only convert organic material into stone. He hopes to commercialize his device by selling extremely life-like statues. He puts an ad in the paper for a model with no friends or family so she won't be missed, then he trains the ray machine on the door so that when it is opened, the victim will be instantly transformed. He succeeds, but when he gazes upon who he has altered to stone, he falls in love with her beauty. He resolves to change her back with another application of the treatment, but neglects to consider the mirror behind her. The rays change her back to normal, but reflect back from the mirror turning the inventor into the world's most life-like statue.

Appearing in "The Invaders"

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    • Numerous unnamed aliens

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Synopsis for "The Invaders"

Tales to Astonish Vol 1 34 018

Aliens from a dry desert world park their invasion fleet on a large expanse of the ocean thinking it to be a solid surface whereupon the ships sink like stones.

Appearing in "Dance, You Fool"

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Synopsis for "Dance, You Fool"

An unsuccessful dancer overhears the old man in the room next to him saying that his old pair of dancing shoes can make anyone a great dancer. He steals the shoes from the old man, but finds that he can never stop dancing.

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