Dates
- Cover date
- August-September 1951
- On sale
- April 25, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- A Toast... to Death! · Crime SuspenStories · 8 pages
A wife is fed up with her lazy, good-for-nothing husband who prefers to spend his time babying a special grapevine than spending time with her. So she poisons his favorite wine, buries him and then concocts an elaborate cover-up, living the life of Riley on her late husband's money.......until that blasted grapevine enters the picture again, costing her her lover and leading to death row for her!
- Out of My Mind! · Crime SuspenStories · 7 pages
Betty hates her husband with a passion and decides to murder him by feigning fainting attacks over a period of months, then acting out in a murderous way when Bert's brother is present. Succeeding in the foul deed, Betty is committed to Harvey's hospital.........with unexpected results.
- Air-Tight! · 2 pages
Grady had a fool-proof scheme to rob the Land National Bank of $250,000, and figured that he had considered all the angles. But there was one thing he failed to take into account......a fatal flaw in his plan.
- The Switch · Crime SuspenStories · 6 pages
The Lamberts are fighting again, but one night Edwin overhears Harry conversing with a person that Edwin believes is a killer being hired to kill Harry's wife. But is Edwin ever wrong.....dead wrong!
- Jury Duty! · The Haunt of Fear · 7 pages
Somehow Peter Kardoff survives the hangman's noose, then starts to take revenge by killing off the members of the jury that convicted him, convinced the law cannot do anything since he was legally pronounced dead. Or at least that is what he thinks.......
Reprinted in
Crime Suspenstories (1983), Tales from the Crypt (1991), Crime Suspenstories (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)