Dates
- Cover date
- August [1952]
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
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Creators
Stories
- The Man who pawned his Soul · 7 pages
A gambler gets his hands on magic dice. He cannot lose anymore. Fate appeals to his conscience. The gambler doesn't listen. He is pursued by zombie-like ghosts and in the end claimed by the devil.
- A Hand of Fate Mystery #9 · A Hand of Fate Mystery · 1 pages
"There are still adventurous young men who travel the American west..." A prospector dying of thirst in the desert is rescued by an indian maiden. She turns out to be a ghost girl.
- Cauldron of Evil · 7 pages
In the Ozark mountains, a village is terrorized by witches. A young man falls into their hands and has to do their bidding as a "witch-man". He transforms into an ugly fat man and is about to open the gates to flood the village. A brave farmer crosses these evil plans, destroys the witches and saves the young man. He is happily ever married to the farmer's daughter.
- A Hand of Fate Mystery #10 · A Hand of Fate Mystery · 1 pages
"To some of us is given the rare power to foresee future occurences..." A tourist dreams that an avalanche will bury a swiss village. No one believes him, and as he leaves the place, a giant snowslide actually comes downhill.
- Dr. Chaney's Macabre Creation · 7 pages
Brilliant surgeon and grave-robber Dr. Chaney wants to build a super-brain by puzzling together the best parts of five different brains. His dumb assistant is to be the carrier of the new brain. Chaney mistreats his assistant, who then destroys the brain in a rage and switches it with a lion brain. Chaney kills his assistant and unknowingly transplants the animal brain into him. The assistant goes on a rampage.
- Fires of Ozymandias · 2 pages
Greedy explorer desecrates pharaoh's tomb and is hit by his curse. The Pharaoh's wife, Moira, comes alive and condemns the man to eternal entombment - fully conscious.
- The Grave will not Wait · 7 pages
A stonemason is crushed to death by a falling gravestone. He tries to make a deal with death: Kill other people if he is allowed to live on. But fate teaches him a lesson. All his actions are fruitless. Fate and death crush him again under the gravestone. Because "his life had run its course".