Dates
- Cover date
- April 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Let the Past Lie Buried! · 9.67 pages
When Professor Niles unearths the remains of a Neanderthal man, the whole town suddenly regresses into inexplicable caveman behavior.
- The City of the Dead! · 5 pages
An adventurous photographer wants to take pictures of a mysterious, forbidden place called "City of the Dead" amidst a desert. He forces his entry by poisoning himself, but takes too high a dose and actually belongs in the realm of the dead.
- Phantom of Disaster! · 10 pages
Engineer Roger Ellis is able to see striking doom in form of a black phantom. With a sorcerer's help he captures the phantom and imprisons it. But the horrible creature can free itself and strikes again.
- The Mills Grind Fine · 2 pages
Two smuggling boats engage in a battle at sea. Neptune himself rises from the ocean to claim the lives of the criminal survivors.
- The Fat Man! · 5 pages
Art painter Leo Main is threatened by his landlady Mrs. Tyran. He paints a murder scene involving her and an ominous fat man. The fat man becomes reality, though, and starts developing a will of his own.
Characters
Reprinted in
Doomsday (1972), Pre-Code Classics: This Magazine Is Haunted (2016), Spellbound (1960), Ghostly Tales Album (1980), Crypt of Horror (2005), Mystic (1960), Zombie (1961), Monster Hunters (1978)