Dates
- Cover date
- May 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Man who Defeated Death! · 10 pages
Chess master Roger Capar dies of heart failure and meets Death in the afterworld, who enjoys playing chess with him. When the doctors bring Capar back to life, Death continues visiting him to play for information about imminent deaths.
- Dripping Terror · 5 pages
Captain Enoch Claughton kills the native girl Mauna for a bag of pearls. He is haunted by her ghostly apparition for decades and finally claimed to join her in death.
- Last Express! · 10 pages
Train conductor Fred Ormesbee quits his job because he's made an offer he can't refuse - riding the Train of the Dead to Hades.
- Tempest in a Teapot · 2 pages
Ephraim Scroon, a recluse on a hill, uses black magic to create thunderstorms and drive away the townspeople who want to lynch him.
- The Walking Cadaver · 5 pages
Hiram Gehr has built a machine to transmigrate souls of old men into the bodies of deceased young men. They pay him for this service to feel young again. When Gehr gets greedy, his customers protest and things get out of hand.
Reprinted in
Doomsday (1972), Ghostly Tales (1977), Super Giant Album (1976)