Dates
- Cover date
- October 1953
- On sale
- 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Ice Man Cometh · 6 pages
The wife of an ice delivery company owner wants to kill him so she can run away with her lover. She tries to lock him in a freezer but the plan backfires.
- A Pound of Flesh · 7 pages
A mechanic kills his obese wife and uses her skin as a covering for a beautiful robot he built in his workshop.
- Death's Revenge! · 6 pages
When a player in an illegal card game gives evidence to the DA, the Mob organizers of the game see to his painful death. He returns on the anniversary of his killing for one more hand and some revenge.
- A Tall Warm Drink · 1 pages
The local undertaker turns out to be a vampire.
- The Death Statue · 6 pages
Sculptor John Weatherbee can't get anyone excited with his work, until a model dies while posing, and, to cover up her death, he coats her in clay. The critics love his new piece, but how can Weatherbee keep his career going?
Reprinted in
Haunted Horror (2012), Weird (1966), Terror Tales (1969), Tales Too Terrible to Tell (1989), Web of Scares Special Collector's Edition (2009), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010), Haunted Love (2016)