Adventures into Terror #29

Dates

Cover date

March 1954

On sale

December 22, 1953

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• The Vampire-Man · 5 pages

  This story postulates the Jack the Ripper killings were done by a hateful hunchback who wanted to become a vampire so he could kill mortals, but was repulsed by the sight of blood, so vampires killed him when he could not fulfill their condition that he partake of human blood before new year's eve.

• The Black Box · 1.67 pages

  Steve Parker is intrigued by the shadow of a man he sees each night on his fire escape. One night he follows the man up and finds himself transported to another planet.

• From Out of the… Grave! · 5 pages

  In old England, a hunch backed grave robber named Grimm makes his living digging up corpses and selling them to doctors to experiment on illegally. When the doctors are finished they have Grimm dispose of the bodies. Instead of putting them back in their graves Grimm simply tosses them in the river. One night however, the offended dead rise from their watery graves to get revenge against him, frightening him to death. When a new grave robber begins working for the doctors, his first dig is ironically Grimm himself.

• The Man Who Walked the Plank · 5 pages

  After a pirate captain's ship is sunk, he finds himself surrounded by sharks, floating on the plank he has forced many to walk off of. His undead victims from Davey Jone's locker jostle the plank, forcing him to walk it, until he tires and falls prey to the sharks.

• The Faceless Ones · 4 pages

  The first space flight from Earth finds the astronauts landing in Hell.

• The Horrible House! · 4 pages

  A wealthy man dreams of an atom bomb wrecking his house and burying him alive, so he goes into the country where he thinks he is safe and has a house built. The construction men warn him that the ground is soft, but he disregards their warning, and the entire house sinks beneath the earth with him inside.

Reprinted in

Gwandanaland Comics (2016), Fear (1970), Beware (1973), Dracula Lives (1973), Zombie (1973)