Dates
- Cover date
- June 1950
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Return of the Monster · 9 pages
A contemporary continuation of the Frankenstein story.
- The Deadly Dwarf! · 7 pages
- The Mask of the Mind! · 4 pages
No one suspects that the handsome and kind Dr. Hill is secretly a grave robber who disguises himself with a hideous mask to do his evil work.
- Don't Shake Hands with the Devil · 6 pages
Satan sends an emissary to a horror story publisher so that he will read the scroll of suffering and be transported to Hell. Satan wants his soul because the stories he publishes turn people away from evil, but he cannot collect it until he is dead, so he puts the curse of Satan upon the publisher to kill the first person he sees (as then he will be executed for the crime), and sends him back.
- The Case of the Cat · 2 pages
- The Witch's Son! · 4 pages
A boy releases bears from their cages in order to save an old woman from being burned at the stake as a witch, but she actually is a witch, and rewards him with a protective spell.
- The Terror That Creeps · 7 pages
A man tries in vain to convince the world that the Sphinx is slowly crawling to the edge of the desert where it will regain its full power to fly and commit atrocities in the name of the evil god Set.
Reprinted in
Tomb of Darkness (1974), Terrific Mystery (1951), Spellbound (1960), Where Monsters Dwell (1970), Crypt of Shadows (1973), Vault of Evil (1973), Crypt of Horror (2005)