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Unusual Tales #35
Unusual Tales #35 is an anthology containing at least two stories: "The Hiding Room," featuring monsters from beneath the earth coming to the surface, and "The Challenge," in which a space explorer equipped with medical knowledge faces the danger of contracting an alien disease that could threaten all of mankind. A third story, "Diving Disaster," is a prose narrative by Professor Howard Livingston concerning precognitive experiences and a historical account of Captain A.B. MacGowan's ill-fated 1877 voyage with his sons, which ended in tragedy when a fire killed approximately three hundred people, with connections to a man named Robert Pearson who experiences disturbing premonitions. The issue also features a story about Bronson Leeds, who studies Sanskrit and the occult, discovering through ancient texts that there are life-forms living beneath the Earth's crust in a vast underground civilization.