Dates
- Cover date
- July 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Jack the Ripper · 7 pages
Reporter Gerald Williams doggedly tries to track down a Jack the Ripper-type killer in the dark streets and alleys of London.
- Night Owl · 6 pages
A man is constantly being nagged by his wife for going out every night to bowl. Eventually he brings her along and she becomes addicted to bowling. It gets to the point where his home and children are neglected and his life becomes a living nightmare due to his wife's constant bowling. When he confronts her, she begins to nag incessantly. Having had enough the husband snaps and the next night joins his friends at the bowling alley with a new ball: his wife's head!
- Sorcery · 1 pages
A philologist describes the several occult means by which a person might ensnare a lover.
- Death · 7 pages
Ex-con Victor kills his brother John and takes his place. He decides to use his brother's tickets to a play, but on the way he is hit by a car. Seemingly unharmed, he attends the play only to find the players portraying his murder of his brother. Thinking he has gone insane, he is horrified when a ghoul-like creature tells him he will be forced to view the sordid episodes of his life forever. Victor never found out he actually died in that car accident and is now doomed to spend eternity in a hell of his own making.
- Pen Pal · 7 pages
Rodney Crane gets a continuous stream of letters from a "Mr. Mord" saying he is coming to kill him. Terrified, Crane kills his secretary Janet, thinking she was the letter writer, and then his wife and business partner when he thinks they are having an affair. Thinking he's finally free, Crane is aghast when he is menaced by a demonic presence, and never realizes he's hopelessly insane, and that he never killed anyone at all - it was all part of his mental delirium.
Reprinted in
Weird Terror (1952), Horror Tales (1969), Terror Tales (1969), Haunted Horror (2012)