Dates
- Cover date
- June 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Rumpelstiltskin · 8 pages
The demon Rumpelstiltskin wants to get his hands on soft, human skin. To hide the person and tattoo on it the patterns of the damned. Rumpelstiltskin coaxes a poor miller's daugher into a fatal deal.
- The Evil Eye! · 7 pages
Warren Cairo plans on murdering his wife Gerda. But she's a witch and knows how to handle the imminent danger. Cairo ends up branded, drowned and eaten by rats.
- Mr. Kon Shuns · 2 pages
A small man named Mr. Kon Shuns is conscience incarnate. His appearance causes each gangster in town to die.
- Doom in the Air · 8 pages
Wes Brewster is lynched by the Jones brothers. Years later he is awakened by an atom bomb test, stalking his wrongdoers and leaving a trail of radiation poisoning behind him.
- Inheritance! · 5 pages
Archeologists Carl Ramen and John Marko discover an Egyptian tablet describing an age-old curse concernng themselves.
Characters
Reprinted in
Gwandanaland Comics (2016), Steve Ditko's The Thing! (2006), The Steve Ditko Archives (2009), The Steve Ditko Archives (2014), Doomsday (1972), Tales Too Terrible to Tell (1989), Crypt of Horror (2005), Steve Ditko: Edge of Genius (2008), The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! (2010)