Dates
- Cover date
- May-June 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Stories
- The Devil Collects · 6 pages
In Africa, planter Reed is informed that his wife Alice must have an operation in England to save her life. Dr. Bishop offers to finance the operation if Reed -- whom he says has a fatal disease -- signs over the rights to his corpse for medical research. Reed agrees. Alice returns from England cured, but Reed discovers she's having an affair with Bishop. Reed arranges for Alice to be bitten by a deadly snake, and delivers her body to Bishop, then kills the doctor. However, Alice had scratched Reed before she died, and the snake venom eventually kills him as well.
- Terror on Location · 6 pages
Actor Vernon and his director brother Sidney visit Africa to make a movie. To achieve realism, they allow a lion to kill actor Eva. Alice is to be the next victim, slain by a hippo, but she's rescued by some apes. The apes murder the rest of the cast and crew. Alice escapes but goes insane.
- Fear of the Witch · 5 pages
Richard's fiancee Beth is killed in an auto accident. Time passes and he meets and marries Janet. However, one night Janet is possessed by Beth's spirit. Janet returns to normal in the daytime, but Beth returns every night. Richard loves both Beth and Janet, so he requests assignment as a meteorologist to the North Pole, where nights and days are 6 months' long.
- Dead on Arrival · 2 pages
- Death Is the Jury! · 5 pages
Jim Harrison's auto strikes a pedestrian -- the man is badly hurt but Jim leaves the scene to avoid being arrested. The man dies. 3 weeks later, Jim's car hits the same man, but the body vanishes. Guilt-stricken, Jim confesses to the police but they think he's insane, because someone else has already been charged with the crime. Cursed to repeatedly hit the same victim, Jim decides to commit suicide by walking in front of a car, and is fatally injured.
Reprinted in
Weird (1966), Terror Tales (1969), Crypt of Horror (2005), Tales of Voodoo (1968), Tales from the Tomb (1969), Tombstone Terror (1982)