Dates
- Cover date
- October 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Clutch of the Devil Fish · 7 pages
A sadistic seafaring band of brothers kills whales. Some for money, some just for sport. This arouses the anger of the "devil fish", a giant octopus. Changing form, the octopus comes aboard as the lovely maiden Myra - killing off the brothers one after the other.
- Flames of Hate · 6 pages
Pierre, an old executioner, hires a young assistant, Jean, to help him with his work. Which is to burn people at the stake. When Jean hits it off with Marianne, Pierre's lovely wife, Pierre seethes with jealousy and "accidentally" burns Jean on the pyre. Marianne is heartbroken. Jean returns from the grave, frightens Pierre to death and takes Marianne with him.
- Shot by a Corpse · 2 pages
First-person-narrative of "a racketeer's moll": When the gang kidnaps a little boy, the woman goes soft and smuggles a confession to the police.
- The Living-Dead · 6 pages
Ivor Blau, lost in the wintery woods of the Black Forest, comes to a lonely house. A lovely girl, Vania, takes him in. Something is strange. Soon Ivor learns that the house is populated with half-dead zombies (a result of a Nazi experiment) and he, Ivor (as the son of the evil Nazi doctor), has to pay with his blood.
- Mountain Madness · 6 pages
Ben and Alan are friends and work as lawyers in the same firm. When Alan gets to be junior partner, Ben is furious and plans his murder. On a mountain trip he pushes Alan into the abyss. Returning to the scene of the crime months later, Ben is attacked by the undead Alan and flung down the mountain to his death.
Reprinted in
The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics (2008), The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! (2010)