Dates
- Cover date
- April-May 1953
- On sale
- January 20, 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Piecemeal · A Horror SuspenStory · 8 pages
A woman plots to give her naturalist husband an overdose of sleeping pills so that she can be with his younger brother. Before he passes, he acquires a large shark and places it in their outdoor pool in which the wife regularly swims.
- The Assault! · A Shock SuspenStory · 7 pages
Lucy, who was spending hours away from home on a regular basis, comes home one night and claims that old Hodges kidnapped and raped her, when, in fact, she had been with her lover. However, when the old man is killed and Lucy spurns her lover, he does the only honorable thing in his mind: kill her!
- Suicide · 1 pages
Patterson had to kill the old janitor after he had broken into a joint in order to keep the man from identifying the criminal. However, Patterson tried to make his crime look like suicide, but the plan backfired when the bullet to the old man's head went into a nearby boiler and scalded the criminal to death!
- The Arrival · A Science-Fiction SuspenStory · 6 pages
Ninety-five thousand years after man destroys himself with nuclear weapons, the evolved rats develop space travel and meet their Martian neighbors.
- Seep No More! · A Crime SuspenStory · 7 pages
Every morning, after a man stabs a woman to death and stashes her body in the attic, he sees a huge bloodstain spreading across his ceiling. He tries to cover it up with paint, but every morning it's there. He even puts a bucket on the floor to collect the blood, and it appears half full to him when the suspicious detectives listen to his confession and tell him there is no stain and no blood in the bucket.
Reprinted in
Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories (2021)