Adventures into Terror #8

Dates

Cover date

February 1952

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Enter…the Lizard · 5 pages

  A man discovers a type of werelizard that reproduces its kind by injecting humans with a poison in its bite that transforms their bodies.

• The Nesterfield Horror · 2 pages

  A man inherits a castle from a dying distant relative who happens to be a duke. He's then killed by a ghost that has been haunting the castle for centuries.

• The Parasite · 5 pages

  A prisoner named Harry notices his cellmate Monk has a grotesque head growing out of his chest. The head convinces him to kill Monk. After this is done the head now grows out of Harry's chest. For you see this head is a parasite from Mars that needs human hosts to live.

• You Can Only Die Once · 5 pages

  A man tries to kill himself over and over again but only succeeds in producing pain and mutilation, not the longed for oblivion. A friend of his informs him that he is already dead, for he committed suicide a year ago, and has been sent to Hell where all suicides reside.

• The Miracle · 2 pages

  A criminal in a bar at night sees a stranger doing wondrous things and so he pulls a gun and demands to know how they are done. The stranger says that if he wants these powers all he needs to do is agree to exchange places with him. He does so and commits various crimes with his new powers, but once the morning begins to arrive, he feels drawn to a cemetery and realizes that he has exchanged places with a ghost.

• The Ones Who Laugh · 6 pages

  A teacher notices that everyone laughs at him wherever he goes. It gets to the point where he is on the verge of madness. When talking to the school's dean, he finds out that the dean is an alien from a race of shape shifting humanoid bug-like creatures that have invaded the Earth. These aliens go from planet to planet consuming all living creatures. They have eaten every human on Earth except for the teacher. They had injected him with a duplicating serum so that he will mass produce more humans for them to eat. The teacher kills himself before this can happen.

Reprinted in

Atlas Comics Library (2023), Beware (1973), Dracula Lives (1973), Weird Wonder Tales (1973)