Dates
- Cover date
- April-May 1952
- On sale
- January 22, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Kickback! · A Crime SuspenStory · 8 pages
A young woman marries an older man for his money and gets tried of caring for him after a heart attack leaves him paralyzed. She comes up with a plot to stock the cellar with canned goods for three weeks and then pretends to be locked inside while her husband starves to death. It works, and she is cleared of suspicion in her husband's death, but the new man she meets manages to lock himself in the cellar without provisions for several days and is reduced to the same condition as her previous husband.
- Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy! · A Science-Fiction SuspenStory · 7 pages
Space explorers land on a planet teeming with intelligent carnivorous plants and fall victim to a demonstration of "She loves me...She loves me not..."
- Time to Kill! · 1 pages
Charlie had a sure-fire plan to kill the wife he hated so badly: he would plant an explosive in the alarm clock on the bedroom nightstand that would go off at 7am the next morning, then head out on a supposed business trip before that time. What he didn't know was that his ever thoughtful wife packed the alarm clock in his suitcase!
- Hiding Place · 1 pages
Mike had succeeded in snatching the quarter-of-a-million dollar Inca Crown Jewels from the museum and hiding them in a secret pocket of his jacket lining. He made his way through the various rooms of the museum and was in the European Torture Device room when he heard sirens and an announcement that thew jewels were stolen and all patrons were to be searched. However, he picks the wrong place to hide!
- The Patriots! · A Shock SuspenStory · 6 pages
A mob at a military parade to honor wounded Korean War soldiers, whipped up by anti-communist sentiment, beats to death a blind war vet when he doesn't doff his hat to the flag during the parade.
- Halloween! · A Horror SuspenStory · 7 pages
On Halloween night, when a new matron at an orphanage discovers the manager has been stealing the state's allotment for the children and threatens to strangle her to keep her quiet, the children take matters into their own hands and use his hollowed-out head as a Jack-o'-lantern.
Reprinted in
E.C. Classic Reprint (1973), Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Classics (1985), Catacomb of Torment (2025)