Dates
- Cover date
- October-November 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Dread Book of Betarin · 8 pages
Eugene Gordon dabbles with black magic and tries spells out of a "grimore", the black book of Betarin. After summoning some elemental creatures and dead people, Gordon encounters Betarin himself.
- Ghosts from Mars · 7 pages
Tiny dead ghostlike Martian creatures are raining down on earth and cause chaos and destruction. Only scientist and "authority on the occult" Don Blant may help by contacting the ghost of his dead brother Allen. The latter tells him that the Martians shy away from human blood.
- The Occult Notebook of Dark Mysteries · 2 pages
Methods of divination, superstitions about were-animals, voodoo dolls and the evil eye.
- The Unwilling Witch · 7 pages
Bob and Jane are haunted by an old witch who was an ancestor of Jane's. Under the witch's bidding Jane turns into a were-cat and tries to kill her fiancé. But Bob gets help from a New Orleans "conjur woman".
- Bargain with a... Worm · 7 pages
Jim Thomas enters into a pact with a strange entity. Looking like a sack, the being offers Jim help in financial matters. In exchange the being can read Jim's thoughts. They start hassling over money and manners. Underestimating the thing's powers, Jim gets the short end of the stick.
Reprinted in
The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! (2010), Haunted Horror (2012)