The world’s most talkative bore has acquired a stopwatch with the power to halt all other action in the world. But when he misuses it, a wonderful conversation piece turns into a real party killer.
In 1847, a wagon train is traveling from Ohio to the deserts of Arizona. One settler, desperately searching for water for his sick son, takes a walk that inexplicably leads him into the next century.
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for one hundred years after hiding millions of dollars in gold bars. But in the future, wealth is far from their reach.
A young woman goes gift shopping at a department store and buys a thimble. When the store closes, she is trapped on the ninth floor—even though no such floor exists.
An impoverished pawnbroker is granted four wishes by a genie in a bottle. The problem isn’t just that his wishes end up not being what he expected—it’s what they did end up being.
When a Naval destroyer picks up a signal from a ship that sank twenty years ago, a crewman is haunted by a strange memory buried at the bottom of the sea.
Henry Corwin, a down-at-the-heels department store Santa, dispenses Christmas cheer to a mission house with the help of a sack that will produce whatever one asks for.
William Feathersmith, a bored, evil, wealthy businessman, gets a chance to go back in time and start over, armed with all the knowledge he’s acquired—an arsenal that’s not as powerful as he might think.
