Dates
- Cover date
- October 1953
- On sale
- July 17, 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Man Who Tricked the Devil! · 5 pages
A smug lawyer tries to trick the devil by selling his soul to him using numerous different contracts to avoid any sort of legal loophole that the devil can exploit. The contracts need to be signed in blood. He spends all night signing the multiple contracts that he ends up dying of blood loss.
- Die For the Beggar · 7 pages
A woman feels sorry for an old beggar and gives him some money for food. The beggar becomes infatuated with her and asks her to marry him. When she finds out he is actually rich she agrees. It turns out he is over 350 years old and has been cursed by Satan. When she tries to get away from him, every person she encounters dies. She realizes that she can't escape from him and is destined to be his wife forever.
- The Beast From the Deep · 7 pages
The fog horn of a new lighthouse awakens a huge prehistoric monster that believes it to be the call of another one of its species. It attacks and destroys the lighthouse and the nearby island of San Noble, before it is destroyed by a battleship.
- Dinky · 7 pages
Dinky was a perennial loser in the boxing world. One day he decided to dress up as a werewolf to scare the other boxers into losing their matches. However his twisted hate turned him into a real werewolf and he began to kill, until he was destroyed by his intended victim's pet wolfhound.
Reprinted in
Tales of Horror (1952), Seduction of the Innocent! (1985), Web of Scares Special Collector's Edition (2009), Haunted Thrills (1952), Weird (1966), Horror Tales (1969), Crypt of Horror (2005)