Dates
- Cover date
- June-July 1953
- On sale
- March 12, 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The October Game · A Horror SuspenStory · 8 pages
A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween.
- Came The Dawn! · 7 pages
A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee.
- Surgery! · 1 pages
In a Police Hospital room, criminal Bat Parker, seriously wounded in a gunfight with the Police, needs a gangrene-laden leg amputated before he dies. The only way this quack would operate was if he were drunk. That was the easy part......the hard part was Bat discovering that the doc had cut off the wrong leg!
- The Meddlers! · 6 pages
The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. They smash his equipment while he suffers heart failure. His failed experiments combine in the sewer to create a blob-like living mass which devours the townsfolk.
- Carrion Death! · 7 pages
A man handcuffed to a policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot. He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. He decides to lie down and allow the vultures to strip the corpse, but when he regains consciousness the vultures have already started in on him as well.
Reprinted in
Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories (2021), EC Horror Library of the 1950's (1970), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019), EC Portfolio (1971), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022)