Dates
- Cover date
- December-January 1952-53
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Only the Dead Live Here! · 7 pages
A young couple gets stranded on a stormy night in a haunted house. They learn of a family tragedy revolving around a hidden treasure and have to fight off the mad ghost of Uncle Ezra.
- Green Grows the Grass · 6 pages
Felix Halt, assistant to renowned scientist Sarbo, kills his employer by making him suffocate in an overheated hothouse. Halt wants to get his hands on a new super-seed which takes root anywhere and is worth a fortune. Before his death Sarbo managed to plant the seed in Halt’s body – who is now overgrown by wild plant life. He turns into a literal grass man and becomes rooted into the ground becoming a part of the forest floor.
- World Below the Ground · 2 pages
In 1972 an Earthquake occurs in California swallowing up a little girl and her kitten who fall into an underground world. There they meet small green winged fairy-like creatures called "undergrounders". These beings had evolved from birds millions of years ago. Growing up in this magical world the girl becomes a queen to these beings and her kitten grows into a giant. Years later a mining company enters this world and attempts to kill the undergrounders. They fight back destroying the invaders thus insuring peace in their hidden world.
- Phantom of the Waxworks! · 6 pages
In Peter Worley’s wax museum a statue of Jack the Ripper comes alive. It is, however, the ghost of Worley’s partner Frank Allen who comes for revenge.
- Castle of Terror! · 6 pages
Scientist Emil Zarko and his colleagues Vincent and George set out to look for a place in the African jungle from where pure evil emanates. They find a medieval castle, complete with a strange housekeeper and a cellar full of gold and diamonds. Zarko wants to explore the place, his friends plan to rob it. While Vincent kills Zarko and poisons George, he learns the gruesome secret of the castle; the housekeeper is death himself and his ultimate master is Satan.
Reprinted in
Haunted Horror (2012)