Dates
- Cover date
- September 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Shrink · 7 pages
Herr Bosz, owner of a reducing salon, has a macabre hobby of shrinking down his female clients and shipping them off to Dresden as exquisite statues.
- Rain of Death · 1 pages
- Steel Trap · 1 pages
- Shrunken Skull · 6 pages
A group of men search for an old colleague, Johnathat Scott, who has disappeared in Africa. They go to visit him and find him living contentedly with a tribe of friendly natives in the Valley of Gold. Eric Ramon is determined to take all the riches in the Valley for himself and kills Scott. He then shrinks his head so the others will think the natives did it. This plan backfires when the ghost of Scott's head stalks the man for revenge.
- The She-Beast · 7 pages
Ex-convict Jock Carver tries to escape into the jungle when he is captured by a beautiful jungle girl, Repta. During his captivity he learns she is hoarding a mountain of jewels. One night he takes the jewels and makes his escape only to run into Repta, who has taken the form of a snake, frightening Carver into a nest of crocodiles.
- Death Song! · 6 pages
George Ricco beats his associate Henri Marleau for a major violinist position. From then on Marleau becomes more jealously enraged when he sees Ricco's success and his own failure. It's too much for him and he kills Ricco and takes his place. Soon, however, he continually sees a visage of Ricco hounding him, until he can take it no more and jumps from a tall building to his death.
Reprinted in
Weird Terror (1952), Terror Tales (1969), Haunted Horror (2012)