Dates
- Cover date
- April 1957
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Secret of the Haunted House · 4 pages
A young girl discovers the secret of a haunted house's reputation is that it is a way station for time travelers.
- The Most Dangerous Man in the World! · 4 pages
- Witch Doctor · 4 pages
When a film crew shooting in the jungle tosses a witch doctor out of the camp as superstitious mumbo-jumbo, the witch doctor disguises himself as a European doctor in order to teach them respect for his abilities.
- The Explorer · 2 pages
- Hideous Hide-out · 4 pages
The mob thinks that a woman's gorilla exhibit is the perfect place to hide their boss until the heat's off. They are surprised to discover, however, that the animals are not stuffed merely flash frozen. When she raises the temperature, the animals distract the men long enough for her to freeze them until the police arrive.
- Secret under the Sea! · 3 pages
A man helps seamen locate sunken ships, but when he is exploited for material gain, he reveals himself to be from beneath the waves and vows to have nothing to do with surface-dwellers again.
- The Sinking Man! · 4 pages
A future man travels into the past to rule but finds himself sinking into a pit of swamp quicksand. He sees a couple of hunters and tries to control their minds through telepathic communication, but their minds are too primitive. He cannot shout out to them, as their telepathy rendered their vocal chords inert over a thousand years ago. Despairing, he reverses the time direction and deposits himself into the hands of the authorities.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Mystic (1960), Creepy Worlds (1962), Spellbound (1960), Crypt of Horror (2005), The Al Williamson Reader (2008), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019), Atlas Artist Edition (2024)