Dates
- Cover date
- October 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Death Was the Bridegroom · Fate · 7 pages
Beautiful Voris Denham marries rich men and poisons them. So Fate decrees her end and Death claims her body. Voris seeks shelter in the arms of a stranger - who reveals himself to be death in person.
- A Hand of Fate Mystery # 25 · A Hand of Fate Mystery · 1 pages
"Of the many fascinating tales of circus life, the one which has astounded students of the supernatural most, occurred twenty years ago in the winter quarters of a famous circus..." Aerialists' squabble under the big top. To catch or not to catch. One lets the other down, followed by a ghostly revenge.
- The Phantom Gladiator · 7 pages
During their tour of Europe, Nat Murrano and his wife Grace are trapped in the ruins of Pompeii in Italy. They are the incarnations of a Gaul gladiator and a Roman noblewoman and have to fulfill deadly vows they made 2,000 years ago.
- A Hand of Fate Mystery # 26 · A Hand of Fate Mystery · 1 pages
"A strange adventure in the realm of the supernatural took place thirty-seven years ago in a rundown section of London..." A stranger pawns the Egyptian "amulet of death" which brings only misery. As the pawnbroker must learn when he goes broke and his shop burns down.
- Long Shall the Undead Wail · 7 pages
A ghoulish history lesson: after their assassination of kind Edward II. in 1327, his wife Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer are doomed to roam the earth as a ghoul and a female werewolf. In the year 1953 they cannot stand it any longer and tear each other to shreds.
- The Macabre Find of Dr. Benton · 2 pages
Out of curiosity Dr. Benton assembles the bones of a vampire's skeleton. The skeleton comes alive on the night of the full moon and locks Dr. Benton in a deadly struggle.
- Dynasty of Disaster · 7 pages
The story of an Algerian family who ruled the land. The curse of a dying slave haunts each new successor to the throne. They can't shake off the curse and die horribly, one by one.
Reprinted in
Mystic (1960), Voodoo (1961), Spellbound (1960), Creepy Worlds (1962), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010)