Dates
- Cover date
- April 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Dark Dungeon · 6 pages
A man keeps mastiffs half-starved in the dungeon so that he can press a button to release them in the event thieves enter his house. His nephew drugs him and wheels his wheelchair into their enclosure so that he will get his money when the dogs finish him. The man's ghost comes back and does the same thing to the nephew.
- Second Floor Rear! · 5 pages
A landlady rents an apartment to straw men.
- The Flowers of Evil · 2 pages
- Ghouls Rush In · 4 pages
A body snatcher is thwarted in his efforts by cemetery rats that chew through coffins in order to pull the bodies into their warrens.
- Off With His Head · 4 pages
An executioner is frightened to death when someone places a mirror in the bottom of his head basket so that he sees his own head in there.
- Talking Corpse · 4 pages
When a medium is exposed as a fake, she shoots her client, but it turns out that she had more ability than she thought she did.
Reprinted in
Crypt of Horror (2005)