Dates
- Cover date
- November 1954
- On sale
- August 27, 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Behind the Locked Door! · 5 pages
When a man with a robotics researcher as a girlfriend gets a robot from her, the creature builds itself a girlfriend robot. When the human woman sees the girl robot, she flies into a jealous rage and shoots her beau before he can explain that the girl is just a robot.
- The Ray Machine · 2 pages
- The Un-Human! · 5 pages
When an alien spy assumes the shape and mind of a servant of the top scientist in the country in order to learn of Earth's defenses, he absorbs some of the goodness of the man's soul, and thus does not reveal to his evil alien masters that they will be destroyed when they attack Earth.
- The Little Things! · 4 pages
A man finds that the oriental figures his wife buys somehow turn into the real thing when they are broken. He wants to be rid of her, so he buys a rattlesnake figurine. When he returns to the house from watching a movie, he breaks the sack containing the figurine against the wall, as she tells him from the kitchen that she exchanged it for a figurine of an atomic bomb.
- It Waits In the Tank! · 4 pages
When a man acquires a strange sea creature it slowly transfers into his body and switches minds, leaving him inside the tank starring out at the alien being which has seized his form.
- The Witch Burning! · 5 pages
A witch dies of heart failure before being burned and possesses the nearest living body, that of a witch hunter. The witch thinks this will be the perfect cover for her to practice her witchcraft, but she reckons without the man's son, who senses the evil presence and burns the cabin down.
Reprinted in
Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Journey into Mystery (2008), Spellbound (1960), Creepy Worlds (1962), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963)