Dates
- Cover date
- August 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The 5 Lives of Otto Marlin · Fate · 7 pages
Mad scientist Otto Marlin poisons Vivian Lake to learn about her previous lives. When cornered by the police, he poisons himself and is reincarnated in the middle ages. Marlin meets Lake again. They chase each other back through time.
- A Hand of Fate Mystery #23 · A Hand of Fate Mystery · 1 pages
"From the sinister interior of the Florida everglades, comes a haunting and almost unbelievable story..." Two hunters trespass into Indian burial grounds, are cursed and killed by the ghost of an avenging Indian warrior.
- Stampede of the Centaurs · 7 pages
Archeologist Harlow Griffith releases a horde of living centaurs from a cave at Mt. Pindus in Greece. He joins their ranks and commits acts of murder and plundering. Griffith and his centaurs are imprisoned in the cave again, this time guarded by their worst nemesis, Hydra.
- A Hand of Fate Mystery #24 · A Hand of Fate Mystery · 1 pages
"The tale of 'the cave of the vampire bat' has been a topic of rapt discussion for years among the people of Mexico..." When three men enter the forbidden cave, one of them remains there - changed into a gigantic bat.
- Satan's Sinister Bargain · 7 pages
Tony Pascal, petty thief and murderer, comes into possession of the "Devil's Mirror". By looking into it, one is drawn into the realm of Satan. Pascal makes a deal and may return as long as he feeds the devil other souls.
- Spectre in the Arena · 2 pages
Boxing promoter Willy Martin arranges a foul fight. His late partner, Mike Kelly, returns from the grave and punches him to death.
- High Priestess of the Snake People · 7 pages
In the Swiss Alps, a young american stumbles across a cult of snake-worshippers. He is bewitched by the beautiful snake queen Gilda. An old villager comes to his help and blows the whole bunch to kingdom come with a pack of dynamite.
Reprinted in
Mystic (1960), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010), Vampires Halloween Special (2022)