Dates
- Cover date
- August 1952
- On sale
- June 17, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Murder Mansion · 8 pages
Gangster couple hides in an abandoned mansion and conjures up the demon Teneshad to do their bidding. But there's a price to pay. Teneshad grows ever larger and takes them prisoner.
- Drury's Dream · 1 pages
Man dreams about his death and really dies the next day.
- Death Follows Orders · 5 pages
A unit of Nazi soldiers is being unearthed from an underground cave and comes alive again. They won't rest until they have executed their Führer's orders. A brave French girl burns the papers and the soldiers turn to dust.
- The Phantom Hounds of Castle Eyne · 1 pages
A pack of dogs predict the owner's death by running around Castle Eyne.
- The Chimes of Doom · 2 pages
After Charles Hanover has killed his rich aunt, he is driven insane by guilt and hears an unending chiming of her grandfather clock.
- Horror's Little Acre · 7 pages
Honeymooners discover a killer's hideout. Luckily for them, the ground they walk on is cursed with the memory of an old unavenged murder. Nature itself turns upon the killer.
- The Phantom Warning · 1 pages
A phantom apparition warns a ship about imminent destruction. The first skipper heeds the warning, the second doesn't and goes down with the ship.
- Day of Reckoning! · 6 pages
After a fire accident, singer Rosalinde Gordon turns into a bird woman with the ability to communicate with birds. When her husband smothers her in her sleep, he is hunted by dozens of birds and driven to death.
Reprinted in
Gwandanaland Comics (2016), Seduction of the Innocent! (1985), Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 (2011), The Alex Toth Reader (1995), Crypt of Horror (2005), Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth (2011)