A writer buys an enchanted typewriter that brings his monster stories to life. First he writes of a sea serpent and is visited by navel intelligence who want to learn how he got wind of classified information. They search his apartment, but not finding anything, they chalk it up to coincidence. Later, the writer creates a story about a two-headed flying creature and is visited by the air force. They, too, wish to know how he learned of secret happenings but again accept it as coincidence. Lastly, he writes of X, an invader from another dimension. When he sees on TV that X is really menacing the city, he realizes his writing is bringing the creatures to life and writes an ending for X, but it doesn't effect the monster. The man realizes it must be his typewriter that is infused with magic power, but X attacks him before he can type out the ending. In desperation, he seizes the typewriter and hurls it through the window. With the typewriter smashed, X fades away.
An alien with powers similar to X-Men's Proteus lands at a circus and hypnotizes the humans of the surrounding area while he rests. A ravenous gorilla breaks from his cage, and "sensing" that Orrgo is the cause of his discomfort, kills the alien in his sleep thus ending the threat.
A heartless tycoon spends great resources and eliminates jobs in order to build a machine that will transport him forty years into the future from the current moment to one forty years hence because his scientists have predicted an end to disease, war, and poverty in the year 2001, but he neglects to consider his body will age forty years in what seems to his mind merely an instant and since the machine has only enough power to move forward the one time he's lost most of the years of his life.
A hunter searching for the Elephant's Graveyard discovers that Martians have been using the Earth to farm ivory since they introduced mastodons to the planet in ages past.
In a war against robots, the robots try to find a way to break the human defenses by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was a human disguised as a robot.
Appearing in "I Learned the Dread Secret of the Blip!"
An alien made of living electricity visits Earth to regain its strength after becoming stuck in a space time warp. Since it has hidden itself in a cave, and siphoned off the nearby electrical current, a scientist goes looking for the source of the power disruption. He finds the alien and realizes that it's friendly, but the frightened townsfolk come upon the cave and mistake the alien's large size for menace and take the scientist as a collaborator. The alien is angered at the hostility the townspeople demonstrate and departs without imparting any knowledge leaving the townsfolk to express their regret at their ignorant behavior.
A convict disregards the warnings of the tomb of Tut-Ah-Anka being cursed and enters it to escape police, afterwards the man begins to have incredible luck and wealth eventually becoming the richest man on the planet, however this is all revealed to be a illusion created by the gases from the tomb and the man is left insane
Notes
In the original printing of "One Way Journey", the main character travels from the then-present of 1961 to the future of 2001. For this reprint ten years later, years in the story are for some reason increased roughly by twenty, starting in 1980 and ending in 2021.
The original version of "One Way Journey" also had a typo in which the people of the future ultimately welcome the main character to the year "1961". For the reprint, this is corrected to the updated intended future of 2021.
