Dates
- Cover date
- July 1972
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
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Creators
Stories
- Edgar Allan Poe's Pit & Pendulum · 1 pages
A brief excerpt of the 1842 story "The Pit and the Pendulum" featuring art of the prisoner of the story strapped down at the mercy of the Pendulum. Also features a drawing of Edgar Allan Poe.
- Kerene · 5 pages
Cult worshippers of the evil Narhlis Kon offer a man as a sacrifice. However the victim is the reincarnated lover of the goddess Kerene, who keeps him alive so one day they can be reunited.
- Horror Has 1 Thousand Faces · 8 pages
Lon August, master horror actor, is honored by his colleagues for his incredible film career in the movie business. Lon always appears in public with a bandaged head never once revealing his true face. When fans swarm him and rip off the bandages, they discover he has no face!
- The Family Jewels · 5 pages
A big game hunter in India unwittingly saves a woman and her child from a Bengal tiger. She takes him back to her village where her husband, the chief, offers him a reward; the family jewels of the village. The hunter is given a stew to eat. Afterwards it's revealed that he just ate his reward. You see since children are so rare in the village that they are considered jewels. The chief had fed his own son to the hunter!
- A Spawn of Satan · 9 pages
The Heap wanders back to the site where he first became the Heap. Just then lightning strikes that vat of experimental nerve gas which covers the Heap. He now finds that the double mutation has cured him. Jim Roberts is ecstatic until he learns that he is only human during the day and changes at night. Not only that, but due to the mutation he now appears more humanoid in his Heap form. While stowing away on a ship to flee civilization, the ship gets attacked by a giant squid. The Heap fights and kills the monster and then washes up on an island.
- The Terrible Tragedy of the Tormented One! · 5 pages
A man saves a woman from a crazed beastman, only to realize that she is the real monster. A succubus who drains the life force of her victims. While she tries to feed on her savior, the dying beastman (who was the fiancée of the succubus and was turned into a monster because of her), saves the man by killing her with a spear.
- The Masters of Blood · Psycho Photo-Special · 4 pages
Publicly photos of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney,Sr., Vincent Price and Christopher Lee supplement an article which details the devotion of classic horror actors to their craft and to their characters.
- The Feastings of Prince Yamm · I Am Demona · 10 pages
Demona, the daughter of a space witch and a human man, vows to use her magic powers to help humanity. She encounters an evil cult leader who uses living skeletons to capture humans to use as sacrifices. Sacrifices to his god, the evil Prince Yamm. Demona is able to kill the cult leader by throwing him off a cliff and then uses an amulet to destroy the giant living idol of Prince Yamm.
- The Asylum of Frozen Hell · 8 pages
A reporter and a womans lib photographer head to the Arctic to investigate a strange broadcast from a weather station. When they get there they see the men are all dead and blind. They make their way to a cave and see a mutant guarding humans tied to stakes. They think the mutant is evil and the humans are innocent. After defeating the mutant, the bound humans use their psychokinetic energy to turn the reporter and woman blind. Just as they die they realize the captured humans were the mutants.
- Forewarned Is... Forearmed! · 2 pages
In space an astronaut drills into a floating rock. It screams and kills him with a blast of energy.
- The Discombobulated Hand · 3 pages
A TV studio promotes a new line of model hands that can be used to hold ties, display jewelery, used as bookends etc. It's revealed that these hands are not made from plastic but rather are real hands removed from corpses.