Dates
- Cover date
- September 1957
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Phantom Express · 6 pages
Vance Jackson loots his firm's safe and plans to leave the country, but before he can Bill Porter confronts him, telling him he had the same plan and demanding the money. They struggle, and Vance kills Bill, but they are reunited in Hell. Awakening to find this all a dream, Vance returns the money to the safe, but finds a chilling note inside.
- The Bedeviled Vault! · 6 pages
A man in a satyr mask robs a bank. Inspector Curan and his son Marty investigate. The bank director himself committed the crime while his twin brother posed as him.
- Memo: From a Police File! · 2 pages
- Ballast of Gold · 4 pages
About the SS Central America. A ship that sank in a hurricane in September 1857, along with 425 of her 578 passengers and crew and 30,000 pounds (13,600 kg) of gold.
- When the Sea Goes Dry! · 8 pages
A man and his wife are treasure hunters looking for sunken Spanish gold that's supposedly protected by an Aztec curse. It turns out that their guide (an Aztec descendent named Pedro) is the curse, as he guards the treasure in his true form. A gigantic octopus.
Reprinted in
Terror Tales (1969), The Heap (1971), Weird (1966), Tales of Voodoo (1968), Weird Ghostly Tales (1984), Crypt of Horror (2005)