Dates
- Cover date
- May-June 1951
- On sale
- February 16, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Werewolf of Warsham Manor · 7 pages
Robert Warsham, last of the Warsham clan, hurries to his uncle’s death bed and learns about a family curse. In an experiment gone wrong decades ago, the scientist partner of Vincent Warsham was turned into a were-beast and killed. When the members of the Warsham family turn 45 years of age, the wolfman stalks and kills them in revenge.
- King of the Living Dead · 7 pages
In Budapest Adrina Rollande, bride of Walter Austen, is kidnapped by a zombie and brought to an underground cavern. Austen manages to follow unnoticed through the sewer system. They meet an eons old madman who is creating an undead army and plans to conquer the surface world. The courageous Austen is able to collapse the cavern causing the madman and his zombie servants to be sucked down into the sewers where they all drown.
- The Subway Horror! · 8 pages
Harry Horton pushes his emotionally and physically abusive wife onto subway tracks killing her. The guilt makes him see her mangled corpse taunting him causing him to panic and fall off the roof of the building he lives in. It's later revealed that it wasn't his wife he had killed but a woman that was wearing his wife's coat.
- Double Trouble · 2 pages
Hank Bache greets Rance Macklin at the station. Rance had come to Africa to work, but Hanks hates the jungle and desperately wants to leave. He notices that he and Rance look alike and finds out Rance has a huge mansion back home he doesn't want to go back to. Desperate to get out of Africa, Hank kills Rance with a poisonous snake and then heads to his mansion to assume his life. While at the mansion, the remains of Rance's murdered fiance is discovered in the attic and Hank is convicted of the crime of her murder.
- The Monster from the Pit · 7 pages
Czerny and Gruszy, two cops of Transylvanian descent, recognize a killer’s spree as the work of the Grahku, a supernatural werewolf-like fiend. They read up on the legend and find a means to destroy the monster. By putting a charm on a certain corpse in the cemetery the Grahku will be stopped forever. But Czerny learns too late that Gruszy is the Grahku.
Reprinted in
Eerie (1952), Eerie Tales (1963), Pre-Code Classics: Eerie (2016), Horror House (1994), Crypt of Horror (2005), The Wolfman (2024)