Dates
- Cover date
- September 1972
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
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Creators
Stories
- The Theater of Horror · 1 pages
A brief writeup about the "Man in Gray", a ghost that reportedly haunted the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the 19th century.
- Part 1: A Gargoyle -- a Man · 10 pages
In 1427 Germany, two stone gargoyles (one male, one female) are erected on a cathedral. During a storm they gain sentience but cannot move. 545 years later in 1972, the gargoyles are removed and dumped in a cemetery. That night a cult of Satanists discover the gargoyles. During a ritual, the gargoyles come to life. The pair kill most of the cultists and flee being taken in by a kindly blind farmer. The cultists track them down and unleash a tendriled monster called "It" to destroy them. Edward is able to kill the monster and he and his mate fly off.
- Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces of Ultimate Horror · Scream Screen · 4 pages
A writeup on Lon Chaney Sr. Contains photos from The Penalty (1920), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Monster (1925), Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Blackbird (1926), Mr. Wu (1927), Mockery (1927), and London After Midnight (1927). Also contains a drawing of him as Quasimodo.
- Devil's Woman · 10 pages
A blind woman discovers that her parents were part of a Satanic cult who helped bring Satan back into our world. Satan now lives in the bowels of her estate. She also learns that her mother procreated with Satan and she is Satan's daughter. Disgusted that her husband (a Satanic Count) has lured people to thier estate to sacrifice them to Satan, she flees and destroys the manor with her supernatural powers. Later she is found by the Count and her aunt who force her to procreate with Satan.
- Have You Ever Seen the Black Rain? · 9 pages
In the mid 14th century a King defeats a Queen and has her exiled to an island. He even has her castle taken apart brick by brick and rebuilt on the island leaving a defeated Queen to live in her empty castle alone. As time passes she invokes Satan and asks him to help her get revenge. He agrees for a price. Not long later the King is defeated in battle. He and his loyalists flee by sea. At sea, mysterious black rains cause his ship to wreck on the Queen's island. He finds out she has been disfigured by Satan just as he was by Satan's minions. Satan played them both.
- The Filthy Little House of Voodoo · 9 pages
In the Australian Badlands, two young women stumble into a small town. Everyone in the town are hundreds of years old and mute. The girls notice a huge abandoned manor and choose to spend the night there. Soon they get attacked by a demonic looking being in a painting. They find themselves being sucked into the painting. It is the explained that the being is called "Voodoo" and he is a parasite. He feeds off of the people in the town draining them of their lifeforces until they are reduced to living husks. The two girls get trapped in the town as Voodoo's latest victims.
- Bad Choke · 6 pages
In the 19th century, two grave robbers rob the grave of a recently executed strangler. One of the men puts on the diamond ring he stole from the corpse's body. The ghost of the strangler stalks the two grave robbers. He possesses the man with the ring and forces him to strangle his partner then forces him to strangle himself to death. Afterwards the ghost reclaims his ring and returns to his grave.
- City of Crypts · 10 pages
In 1922 an archeologist, his wife, and his friend excavate the Tomb of Pharaoh Ramakhen. They don't realize that they unleashed a curse which takes them out one by one. The archeologist is killed by his jealous friend, his friend is killed by shambling monstrosities in the Tomb, and the woman turns into one of the shambling monstrosities as she flees the Tomb into the desert.