Dates
- Cover date
- October 1953
- On sale
- 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Light That Lured! · 7 pages
A young couple foils the attempt of dead Captain Dorrance to lure a passenger ship upon a reef.
- The White Gorilla! · 6 pages
Big game hunter Frank Blair captures a giant white gorilla revered by the natives as "The Sacred Gorbu", whose spirit escapes and transforms the hunter into a white gorilla.
- The Spectre at the Opera! · 3 pages
La Scala Opera House in Milan, 1836. A "spectral songstress" sings the arias of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" with supernatural beauty. Turns out she is a vampire named Virginia Cosselli who died in 1781.
- Stamp Murder! · 4 pages
Roger Banning kills his rich uncle and cleans up the murder scene afterwards. But the police get him, because a stamp from the crime scene is clinging to the sole of Banning's shoe.
- Help Us to Die! · 6 pages
Jim and Marjorie Torrence steal an Egyptian mummy from the museum. Learning the secret of eternal life from the long dead king, they drink his elixir turning into mummies themselves.
Reprinted in
Nightmare (1970), Haunted Horror (2012)