Dates
- Cover date
- September 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Phantom Bus · 8 pages
Lawyer Keggler comes to the lonely town of Coultonville and gets drawn into an old tragedy. After a ride on a phantom bus and a dance in the cemetery, Keggler is haunted by the ghost of a dead girl.
- Ghost Portraits · 0.5 pages
- Bayou Vengeance · 7 pages
The not-too-bright handyman Louis robs the dead Miss Caroline of her diamond ring to give it to his sweetheart Nanette. Miss Caroline returns from the grave and demands back her precious ring. In a bayou quicksand showdown Louis loses his life.
- Dr. Death · 3 pages
After a car accident, a man drags himself into a doctor's house and passes out on the floor. He awakens and finds his wounds treated well, but has to learn from the neighbors that the doctor died the previous night.
- Death by Darkness · 2 pages
When Jed Runston finally has the courage to kill his longtime blackmailer Silas Hager, he is haunted by the gangster's ghost and dies trying to cover the tracks of his murder.
- Mirror of Hate · 5 pages
The evil and disfigured Lucia kills her half-sister Diane so she won't marry Ted, the man she loves herself. The desperate Lucia commits suicide and her soul is trapped in a mirror. The evil soul in the mirror takes possession of the next woman Ted loves - and a struggle for life and death ensues.
- Peg Powler · 1 pages
A man encounters Peg Powler, "the green-haired haunt" of English rivers.
- The Eerie Glen · 5 pages
A young man feels sick and goes to bed with a fever. In the night, his dead father comes for him and shows him his new home, the eerie glen. When the young man returns into town, he finds that everybody is ignoring him. Reaching the house, he discovers a society of mourners around a coffin. The young man has obviously died during the night.
Reprinted in
Creepy Worlds (1962), Crypt of Horror (2005), Alex Toth: Edge of Genius (2007), The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics! (2010), Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 (2011), Haunted Horror (2012), Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror Comics: Swamp Monsters (2019)