Dates
- Cover date
- January 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
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Creators
Stories
- The Walking Death · 6 pages
An atomic pile at a nuclear plant explodes. This causes a chain reaction which blows up piles in all the nuclear plants in the world. This decimates humanity. Further more, the radiation hatches prehistoric dinosaur eggs and the radiation causes the dinosaurs to instantly grow into adults. The few humans left now band together and find themselves having to start humanity over again.
- The Mad Man · 6 pages
A reporter stays at a mental asylum so he can write a report about it for the newspaper he works at. He encounters an old man who claims he's an alien and needs his help building a rocket so he can return to the stars. The reporter helps him, all the while thinking he's a crackpot. That night the patient does indeed take off in his rocket and flies off into space. When the reporter tells the doctors what he saw, they think him insane and commit him to the asylum.
- Die the Doll Death · 2 pages
A man asks an old witch if she could help him get revenge on a man who not only stole his land but the love of his life as well. The witch gives him a small wax doll and tells him to cover it with something that belongs to the man. Afterward, whatever he does to the doll will happen to his victim. When he returns home and does this, he accidentally sweats all over the doll and throws it into the fireplace. Since his DNA is on the doll, he burns up instead of his intended victim.
- The Terrible Tree · 6 pages
In Scotland, Dave and Jeff fall in love with the same woman. She finds herself gravitating towards Dave. However he tends to put his research above her as he's obsessed with proving that trees are sentient beings. One night, Jeff sneaks into his greenhouse and notices he's experimenting on trees. When one of the trees attempts to kill him, a fire breaks out destroying the greenhouse. At the last second Dave transfers his consciousness into the one surviving tree. Now decades later old man Jeff tends to the living tree that he planted onto his property so he wont be a murderer if the tree dies.
- The World that Vanished · 5 pages
A man tells a woman the story of Atlantis. Eons ago there was no ocean but only Atlantis. When a scientist invents a powerful magnet with hopes of convincing the people to use it to conquer the cosmos, the king has it dropped into a deep lake. The scientist sends men to try to retrieve the magnet. Every time they try digging to reclaim it, it sinks deeper and deeper. Eventually the lake become bigger and bigger, and Atlantis gets destroyed as the water of the growing lake becomes oceans that cover the earth. The magnet sinks to the core of the earth and ends up creating gravity.
Reprinted in
Mystic (1960), Spellbound (1960)