Dates
- Cover date
- April-May 1954
- On sale
- February 15, 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Orphan · 8 pages
A little girl murders her drunken father and frames her uncaring mother for the crime so that she can go live with her nice aunt.
- The Whipping · 7 pages
A community is up in arms when Mexican-Americans move to town and form a vigilante group to deal with them. However, one of the bigots murders his own daughter when she marries a Mexican.
- Blunderer · 0.6 pages
A foreign spy seeks to steal a top secret document from the Nuclear Energy building, and spots a duplicate copy of it carelessly dropped to the floor. Thinking all of the employees in that office were inept fools, he sneaks in and secures the directive and is on the way out when a shot rings out, striking the spy in the back. With his dying breath, he scans the document, which is totally blank!
- You, Murderer · 6 pages
A story told in second person about the victim a hypnotist picks to do his dirty work for a killing after his wife leaves him for another man.
- As Ye Sow... · 7 pages
A husband hires a contract killer to trail his wife and murder the man she meets. The woman reconsiders her affair, decides to call it off, and returns to her husband. The husband is glad to have her back before he remembers what he's done. He sees the figure in the door and the flash of the gun. The last thing he ever hears is his wife begging him not to die.
Reprinted in
The Haunt of Fear (1954), Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (2015)