Dates
- Cover date
- June 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Blood Money of Galloping Chad Burgess · 8 pages
When investigating the legend of the English highwayman Chad Burgess (and searching for his legendary gold treasure), Dr. Paul Furness and his wife do actually encounter him. The two hundred year old spectre drives them insane.
- Spectral Ships · 0.5 pages
- Shadows in Pawn · 5 pages
Mark Denton has pawned his shadow to a curio dealer dabbling with the black arts. When people beging to shun him, only his fiancée Joan stands by him. Together they manage to retrieve the missing shadow.
- The Claw of Klath · 2 pages
When secretary Mary Dale enters a curio shop, she relives her former existence of Taklah, a refugee from the cult of Klath.
- The Hungry Lodger · 6 pages
A young couple running a diner cater their food to a mysterious stranger living all by himself. When the police suspects foul play and breaks down the door, they discover a horrid, giant, man-eating caterpillar.
- The Devil's Stones · 1 pages
A farmer is bewitched by his neighbor and has to endure a rain of stones.
- The Nine Horrors · 7 pages
Big game hunter Roger and his sweetheart Betty are stalked by Syvva, a were-tigress seeking revenge for the killing of her mate. The hunter sees through her plot, but has to kill her over and over again, because cats have nine lives.
Reprinted in
The Alex Toth Reader (1995), Alex Toth: Edge of Genius (2007), Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 (2011)