Dates
- Cover date
- November 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- One Door from Disaster · 7 pages
The cop Mike Young arrests a beautiful vampire lady named Velma. He is seduced by her and falls in love. He helps her overcome her vampire heritage, but the untroubled togetherness will not last.
- True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 53 · True Tales of Unexplained Mystery · 1 pages
"Little is known of the fabulous situation which existed many centuries ago in the foothills of the Andes mountains of south America..." Discovering a king's burial chambers, three explorers confront living mummies and one of the men is captured and made into another mummy.
- Valley of the Scaly Monsters · 7 pages
In the steaming Amazon jungle, "Creature from the Black Lagoon"-like creatures kidnap a woman from an expedition. They drug her and want to make her the queen of the lizard people. Her boyfriend intervenes and buries the creatures under an avalanche of rocks.
- True Tales of Unexplained Mystery # 54 · True Tales of Unexplained Mystery · 1 pages
"Paris was in the throes of a fearful crime wave in the summer of 1893..." A son imitates his father's crimes and is beheaded by the wax dummy of the executioner who beheaded his criminal father 30 years earlier.
- Mission of Lost Souls · 7 pages
The witch Zita must supply Satan with men's souls. To this purpose Zita runs a derelicts' home, the "Mission of Lost Souls", forcing her residents into a pact with the devil. The reporter Sam Brant goes in undercover and puts an end to Zita's evil reign.
- The Brass Talisman · 2 pages
Psychologically blocked painter Varsko murders the hypnotist Lorenz, who helped him overcome his blockage by use of a magic talisman. Now in possession of the piece, Varsko makes a fatal slip-up.
- Enigma of the Unscheduled Passenger · 7 pages
Lucinda Dell meets stranger on a train. When he gets off, he leaves his wallet. The woman investigates. A murder mystery unravels. In the end the wrongdoer gets exposed.
Reprinted in
Weird Romance (1988), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010), Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Mummies (2017), Vampires Halloween Special (2022)