Dates
- Cover date
- April 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Sorcerer's Spectacles · Fate · 7 pages
Vernon Hutchins, a bad man and gambler, comes upon a magic pair of glasses. If he looks through the sorcerer's spectacles, devils appear and kill everyone he is looking at. Fate steps in and makes Hutchins glance at his own reflection in the mirror.
- A Hand Of Fate Mystery #19 · A Hand Of Fate Mystery · 1 pages
"A true story that became legendary in the mining towns of Wales in Scotland, occurred at the turn of this century..." Coal miner Sweeney gets buried in a cave-in, but his ghost helps his comrades to dig themselves out.
- Beware the Snake Queen! · 6.67 pages
In the Haitian jungle two explorers confront the snake queen. The Meduse-like creature's stare can turn men into snakes.
- A Hand Of Fate Mystery #20 · A Hand Of Fate Mystery · 1 pages
"In a small town in France, there is told a true tale of a strange and awesome occurrence. In 1923, Peter Rouan, a tombstone carver, had amassed a small fortune..." Rouan gets stabbed to death by robbers looking for his money. They only find tombstones - with their names engraved upon them.
- Orchids from the Dead · 7 pages
Lonny Quinn works as gravedigger in a penal colony off the coast of Mexico. He finds out that orchids blooming on the graves of the convicts inhabit their souls and eventually bloom into full grown new bodies. Quinn kills himself and is being shipped to freedom. As he grows a new body, Quinn learns that he will remain a zombie.
- The Sabre of Gregory Tamoric · 2 pages
In a trial of courage, Gregory Tamoric is supposed to stick a sabre into a grave at midnight on the local cemetery. He accidentally pierces his long cloak with the weapon, trips, falls down and dies of shock - thinking a skeleton has grabbed his foot.
- Mirror Macabre · Fate · 7 pages
After Victor Tein kills his rival in a mirror foundry, he is haunted by Fate and his victim's ghost appearing in mirrors. Victor can't shake Fate and dies in a car crash he stages to wipe out all traces of his crimes.
Reprinted in
The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010), Vampiress (2025)