A Two-Headed Glip Is Worser Than None

Artist Bill Mono did great deal from Charlton Publishing's various sci-fi anthologies and really stood out in Issue 60 Strange Suspense Stories with the unorthodox tale of The Two-Headed Glip. In what seems like a family-friendly episodes of Twilight Zone, John Reis regularly tells bedtime stories to his toddler son Billy starring fantasy creatures such as dragons and giants, but the reigning champion of his fictional universe was the Glip, a humongous two-headed serpent that scared off all the other monsters. John then starts having dreams where the Glip is chasing him only to be saved by his son with toy bow and arrow, so one night he decides to stop telling Billy stories. Later on, Mr. and Mrs. Reis here a roar from outside, but they shake it off thinking that's it's just a coincidence a mysterious roar sounding like the monster one of them thought up is staring at them right outside their window. John again dreams of the Glip hunting him down and biting him on the arm only to have Billy show up and shoot it with his pop gun which causes a high-powered explosion completely vanquishing the cranky kaiju. John wakes up the next morning and decides to let the mother handle story time from now on but is perplexed to find out his jacket for some reason has a huge chunk torn out of the sleeve. There's no explanation given to what caused the wonky dreams warp, or if the father had the mutant power of reality manipulation, but maybe next time the father could conjure up a cure for world hunger instead a reject from Monster Island.

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