Dates
- Cover date
- October 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Tin Cup · 5 pages
An actor poses as crippled, scarred and blind in one eye so as to bilk people out of sympathy money but then fate conspires to inflict such deformities upon him for real.
- Bill and the Beanstalk · 2 pages
- He Died Screaming · 5 pages
A man doesn't want his daughter to learn where he keeps his money so he shuts himself in with it, only remembering too late that his hiding place is soundproof and airtight.
- Crazy · 3 pages
A motorist hits a pedestrian and keeps going. When he gets to a small town the people observe him strangely and he thinks they must not get many visitors. They gather around his car with sticks and rope. They bind him and he asks them if they are crazy. It turns out the body of the man he struck is still in the car's grill.
- Escape…To What? · 5 pages
A man tries to escape from Hell and fails.
- The Slave · 5 pages
Sailor Joe Garcy travels to South America to seek his fortune. Discovering that Inca natives traditionally bury their dead with their belongings, he begins robbing crypts in search of riches. During a funeral procession, he disguises himself as an Inca slave to gain access to the burial vault. Once inside however, all of the slaves, including Joe Garcy, are sealed up behind the walls to die.
Reprinted in
Uncanny Tales (1973), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Crypt of Shadows (1973), Dead of Night (1973)