Dates
- Cover date
- July 1953
- On sale
- May 19, 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Corpse That Came to Dinner · 8 pages
A young couple returns from their honeymoon. They learn that a friend has committed suicide, because he had wanted to marry the girl. The friend's corpse climbs out of his grave and lays siege to the couple's apartment.
- The Human Hyena of Pirra · 0.5 pages
Hunter shoots a were-hyena in Northern Africa.
- The Horror of Candle Lodge · 3 pages
Ghost of US-American freedom fighter slays the descendants of British soldiers who lured him into a trap.
- Battle of Edge Hill · 0.5 pages
Eye-witnesses confirm the "fata morgana" of a ghost battle in the sky.
- Till Death Do Us Part · 6 pages
Charles finds out that her sister's husband is keeping him from his inheritance by pretending the sister still to be alive. She died some time ago and is paraded through town as a veiled mummy.
- High Hung the Witch · 2 pages
Barkham in New England. Cob Hathorne, descendant of a witch hunter, comes to visit and is killed by a surviving witch who stayed young through the centuries.
- Gunnvor the Sorceress · 3 pages
Account of Icelandic saga about madwoman Gunnvor, who could not be killed and haunted her people in many different shapes.
- Hanged by the Neck · 7 pages
The magician El Rondo grows jealous of his assistant and hangs him on stage (during a magic routine). Haunted by the man's ghost, El Rondo meets his fate getting paid back in kind.
- The Spanish Steed · 1 pages
Wanting to tame a legendary gray stallion, a sportsman is suddenly faced with a centaur.
Reprinted in
Seduction of the Innocent! (1985), Tales Too Terrible to Tell (1989), Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s (2010)