Dates
- Cover date
- May 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- This Corpse Is Mine · 5 pages
Kovak is a heartless mortician. One night, he finds a vampire and werewolf arguing over a body in his mortuary. Thinking them fakes, Kovak tells the creatures to divide their victim evenly, the blood for the vampire, the flesh for the werewolf. They agree and reveal Kovak is the intended victim they've been arguing over.
- The Cigar · 2 pages
- The Crawling Horror · 5 pages
Grief-stricken after his wife's death, Frank resolves to increase the size of germs to better study them. However, the germs grow into giant monsters who terrorize Frank. Frank burns down his house to destroy the creatures, but one survives, growing ever larger.
- He Went for a Train-Ride · 4 pages
Philip's train takes him to the year 1981. He finally uses the train to return to his own time but Lorna remains her self from 1981.
- The Gold Gorilla! · 4 pages
Kip steals a young golden gorilla and kills Paul to have it to himself. Meeting Murnah on his plane home Kip romances her but once on the ground she changes into the gorilla's mother and kills Kip.
- The Rat Race · 5 pages
Testing rats in his laboratory, Tompson is amazed at one large rat whose intelligence is greater than the others and keeps avoiding Tompson's traps. Tompson finally decides to lock the rat in a room with poisoned food to see if it will eat the food from hunger but the rat escapes the lab and locks Tompson inside, leaving him to face the dilemma for himself.
Reprinted in
Mystic (1960), Amazing Stories of Suspense (1963), Astounding Stories (1966), Spellbound (1960), Voodoo (1961), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Creepy Worlds (1962), Crypt of Horror (2005), Atlas Creator Collection (2026)