Dates
- Cover date
- November 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Blood of the Bat · 7 pages
A struggling boxer drinks a serum made from bat blood which gives him almost super human strength and reflexes allowing him to become a champion boxer. Unfortunately for him, he eventually turns into a giant bat.
- Step into My Parlor · 6 pages
Two bank robbers try to rob an overweight woman who lives alone in a boarded up derelict house in the slums. Turns out she's really an alien creature that feeds on human flesh.
- The Little Ghost · 2 pages
A write up and analysis of a story told by famous physician Silas Weir Mitchell involving the ghost of a little girl asking him to help her dying mother.
- Mirror Image · 6 pages
An unlikable rich uncle sees a snake in his room and dies of fright. Little did he realize it was his nephews' toy snake.
- The Improved Kiss · 7 pages
Baluk Khan, an evil Mongolian conqueror, enjoys destroying villages and butchering innocents. He invades the peaceful village of Uzruk and claims the king's daughter as his bride. As he prepares to kiss his new bride, he discovers that she is infected with plague flies.
Reprinted in
Haunted Horror (2012), Weird (1966), Tales of Voodoo (1968), Horror Tales (1969), Weird Worlds (1970), Tales Too Terrible to Tell (1989), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010)