Dates
- Cover date
- March 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Horror of the Clutching Hand · 7 pages
Two convicts, Jackson and Martin, escape from Newton Penitentiary in Bangor, Maine. They kidnap the wife of a wealthy industrialist for ransom but the convicts turn on each other while waiting for the payment.
- The Trapeeze of Death · 7 pages
Don, Nina and Steve are The Alcaros, a carnival trapeeze act. Steve and Nina are having an affair and plot to kill her husband, Don.
- A Smuggler Meets a Ghost · 2 pages
Branson hires sea-diver Jack Lewis to recover jewels from a sunken boat. The jewels are really smuggled drugs and Branson drowns Lewis to keep him quiet. As Lewis sinks to the bottom he vows revenge. Story is told from Betty Lewis' point of view.
- Wine, Women and Death! · 7 pages
Steve wants to marry Noreen but has to kill Uncle Louis, who disapproves of the pair's wedding plans.
- Crime at the Graveyard · 7 pages
Gloria is cut out of her uncle's will when she marries George. They plan to poison the uncle at dinner but then two men burst in to rob the uncle at the same time.