Dates
- Cover date
- June 1952
- On sale
- March 7, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Slithering Horror of Skontong Swamp! · 11 pages
The gangster Goldie Ricon escapes from death row into the Skontong swamplands. There he gets bitten by a zombie and from then on is haunted by terrible zombie encounters. Driven almost insane, Goldie returns to death row - and to Skontong swamp.
- The Ghost of Fanciful Hawkins! · 10 pages
Country boy Hawkins comes to death in a fight with rival bully Withers. The victim's oversized shoes appear as ghostly accessoires and chase the evildoer around. He will die the same way poor Hawkins went.
- Horror at Midnight · 2 pages
Dr. Wiggins, new in town, is called to the home of the recluse Cadden. There the devil joins the two men, demanding a soul.
- The Last Man · 9 pages
A small carnival pitches it's tents in a small town where the cheapest room is $5 per night. Four men from the carnival go looking for cheaper lodgings and find an old abandoned house that a local man says is haunted by the ghost of a man who killed his friends with a hammer. The four men try to stay in the house and the murder begins.
Characters
Reprinted in
Mystic (1960), Doomsday (1972), Crypt of Horror (2005), Spellbound (1960), Ghostly Tales Album (1980), Nightveil's Cauldron of Horror (1989), FemForce in the House of Horror (1989), Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (2010)