Dates
- Cover date
- September 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Castle of Fear · 6 pages
Bill inherits a castle in the desolate black mountains and there he encounters two men who make monsters out of humans. After escaping from a tentacled humanoid reptile, he encounters his uncle who has been turned into a humanoid tiger. The monsters start attacking each other causing Bill to flee. What he experienced makes him go mad by the time he makes it back to town.
- Rat-Trap · 4 pages
A prisoner is desperate to escape his cell. He feeds a rat and notices the rat leaves through the barred window. He deduces that if he keeps feeding the rat, the rat will eventually bend the bars open with it's fat body as it comes and goes. By losing weight, the prisoner can then squeeze through the stretched open bars and escape. When the prison guards notice him getting skinny, they give him vitamin pills instead of food. With no food to feed the rat, the rat attacks and kills him.
- While the Iron Was Hot! · 4 pages
A meek tailor has had enough of his bullying wife. When she refuses to let him leave the house to pick up a dressmaker dummy, he kills her and turns her corpse into a dummy.
- Jonah · 6 pages
A scientist invents a shrinking ray which accidently shrinks his assistant Jonah to under an inch in height. The scientist eats a sandwich not realizing Jonah was hiding on it. Jonah is trapped in the scientist's mouth and tries to avoid being swallowed. He uses a laser to blast at the scientist's teeth. The scientist goes to the dentist to see what's causing the toothache. The dentist sees a tiny object but can't make out what it is. The scientist uses the reverse polarity of his shrinking ray to enlarge the object causing Jonah to explode out of his mouth.
- The Cycle · 5 pages
An oyster has a pearl. A native pearl diver gets the pearl and kills his partner so he can keep it all for himself. The native pearl diver has the pearl stolen by a fat man in a bar. The fat man is killed by two thugs who take the pearl. The thugs escape but out at sea fight over the pearl. The pearl is accidently dropped overboard. The pearl ends up back inside an oyster.
Reprinted in
Shock (1969), Haunted Horror (2012)