Dates
- Cover date
- May 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- I Can't Stop Running! · 5 pages
A prospective diamond thief goes out to an old hermit's house where he is locked onto a treadmill with spikes at his back.
- Love Affair · 5 pages
A man and his secretary enjoy an affair in their shared dream, but when the girl's convict husband is released from prison and hunts her down, their dream becomes a nightmare when the husband shoots the man dead. In the waking world, the man's wife screams as he slumps over with a neat, round hole in his forehead.
- The Spice of Life! · 4 pages
The fantastically wealthy Ed Bean finds everything he has done in his life frightfully boring (even murder). He offers a million dollars to anyone who can come up with something he hasn't done, and a grotesque old man answers the ad, bringing him to deserted house where Bean will get to try something he never has before -- dying!
- Point of View · 2 pages
- Blackmail! · 4 pages
A man gets rid of a elderly blackmailer by putting peppermint candies in his drink and telling him it was arsenic and letting fear go to work on the old man's heart.
- Hang Until Dead! · 5 pages
Reprinted in
Spellbound (1960), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Chamber of Chills (1972), Crypt of Shadows (1973), Giant-Size Man-Thing (1974)