Dates
- Cover date
- May 1957
- On sale
- January 21, 1957
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Middle of the Night · 4 pages
A watch repairman gets a watch from a mysterious stranger and when he fixes it, he finds that he can go backwards and forwards in time by moving the hands. He goes back to the year 1575 in order to steal the French king's jewels, but when he is apprehended by the king's guards, he finds that his watch has disappeared as they were not in existence at the time.
- Voodoo · 4 pages
Two detectives with different attitudes toward voodoo track down a blackmailer. To prove he is a fraud the younger detective gives the shaman a lock of hair for one of the dolls. When they find someone to testify against him they attempt to arrest him. The shaman threatens the detective by holding the doll out the window. The younger detective scoffs but he drops the doll and falls out the window. The younger detective is puzzled but his partner explains he switched the hair he handed the priest with some of his own hair he got off the bed - just to be on the safe side.
- Immortal Horses · 2 pages
- The Red Doom · 4 pages
When a man attempts to steal the world's largest ruby from an Indian temple, he finds himself mysteriously imprisoned under glass.
- The Desert Rat · 4 pages
An aging strongman drinks a potion that will forever keep him a "man of iron"...literally.
- The Betrayer · 3 pages
A Communist terrorist is burned to death by the statue of liberty's torch when he tries to place a bomb there.
- Nightmare · 4 pages
When three people in a town commit criminal or uncompassionate acts, they perceive the entire town floating off into space, until they repent of their actions.
Reprinted in
Secrets of the Unknown (1962)