A writer buys an enchanted typewriter that brings his monster stories to life.; An alien race with immense telepathic and telekinetic powers send one of their kind to conquer Earth. He easily defeats the police and army and freezes Washington, DC in a block of ice, but is killed by a gorilla while resting because he only prepared defences against humans.; A white game hunter finds the legendary elephant's graveyard, hoping to make a fortune in ivory. He discovers that elephants were introduced to Earth by Martians, who use the graveyard as a gathering point for the ivory, and won't let him leave.; A heartless tycoon has a time machine built to take him forty years into the future, where he believes that war and disease will be wiped out.; In a future war between humans and robots the robots try to find a way to break the human defences by sending a robot spy disguised as a human. The spy's information leads them into a trap, and they discover that their spy was himself a human disguised as a robot.; A criminal hides from the police in an old Egyptian tomb, ignoring the warning of a curse. He not only escapes the police, but has a run of luck that makes him rich and happy. Or so he thinks, as the gas in the tomb drove him mad and he is delusional in an Egyptian hospital.