Dates
- Cover date
- February-March 1949
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Witch-Cat of Salem · 7 pages
- By the Light of the Lantern · 0.75 pages
- The Vampire Prowls! · 9 pages
A vampire is obsessed with musical comedy star Ruth Morton. Ruth's husband Bill consults Dr. Junius B. Jethro about the case. Dr. Jethro and two policemen track the vampire to a tomb in a cemetery. The vampire is identified on the coffin as Marvin Sanders, who died in 1954. Dr. Jethro kills him with a stake while the two police officers look on. The vampire turns into a skeleton in his coffin.
- Celtic Superstitions · 1 pages
- The Specter of Little Dread House · 9 pages
"Tiny Tim" Carver and his tiny house return from the hereafter to terrorize Alice and Jim who have built their house where Tim's used to stand.
- The Affair of the Ferrick Phantom · Do Such Things Exist? · 7 pages
- The Empty House · 1 pages
- King Charles · 2 pages
- The Creekmore Curse · 9 pages
Dr. Gaunt worked the dark arts to create demonic minions. His activities began in Whispering Hollow, within the county of Creekmore. In 1770, a lightning strike kills Gaunt and burns his house to the ground. Two centuries later, a research historian named Rand rebuilds the property using the surviving stonework. He and his assistant Betty move in. Gaunt enters the house in the form of a black dog. Soon, he is active once more. Dr. Gaunt chases Betty and Rand into the cemetery. The ghosts of his 18th century murdered victims and lightning prove to be his demise.
Reprinted in
Adventures into the Unknown Archives (2012), Chilling Tales of Horror (1969), Haunted Tales (1973), Portrait of Peril (1982), Hideous Haunts (1982), Crypt of Horror (2005), Classic Pulp: Ghosts (2021), Classic Pulp (2021), Vampires and Their Victims (2025)